Just hours after it was enforced, the communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has cancelled its ban on the Russian-language version of Wikipedia over an entry about hashish that a court earlier ruled contained illegal information. Following a request by Roskomnadzor watchdog agency , some of Russia's internet service providers blocked the access to the free encyclopedia. The initial intention was to only block the controversial article, but Wikipedia warned that since it uses the HTTPS protocol, a single page cannot be blocked, which means the whole encyclopedia would be inaccessible. Roskomnadzor decided to go ahead with the ban anyway.
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Schiedam, INC News, 25/08/2015 - via RT
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