Tajik authorities block 200 websites for calling for anti-government rally | Russia Beyond The Headlines

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Public calls for an anti-government rally to be held on October 10, which surfaced in the Tajik social-networking segment, have led to the closure of more than 200 websites, including Facebook, VKontakte, YouTube, several Russian-language news websites and the Russian version of Wikipedia, mobile operators and service providers told Interfax on Monday.

“We have received an order from the Communications Service with a list of websites. These include Facebook, vk.com, lenta.ru, youtube.com, mk.ru, amazon.com, ru.wikipedia.org and dozens of web anonymizers that allow bypassing these blockings,” a senior manager from the national internet providing company said on condition of anonymity.

The blocking of the Wikipedia and the U.S. online shop Amazon prompted mockery on social-networking sites whose users have long learnt how to bypass blocking of sites.

The head of the governmental Communications Service, Beg Saburi, denied his agency’s involvement in the blockings but claimed that certain websites “do not want peace in Tajikistan.

Source: rbth.com

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