“GitHub censoring content to blockade in Russia to stop”

GitHub does the Russian government meet and specific content censoring. The measure must be the conflict that both parties have with each other to solve, and in addition, the survival of the platform in Russia ensure.

GitHub has in Russia the access to certain prohibited content blocked and at the moment is to bring the platform back into the air, reports TechCrunch. In the terms and conditions it is further clearly underlines the fact that GitHub is not for illegal or unauthorized purposes may be used.

The company gets to say that occasionally requests for certain content that is contrary to the Russian law to censor. GitHub indicates is not always to be found in the decisions of the government. To ensure that the Russian citizens to use GitHub can continue to create, however, must sometimes be content to be censored, says Github. The official request to the blockade has led, will then be placed online.

The measure follows on the blockade of GitHub in Russia. The blockade was set up by the Roskomnadzor, the Russian authority for Communications, information Technology and Media. GitHub wanted to, reportedly, a text in which zelfmoordmethoden were described not delete. In October, the site was already blocked.