روسيا: مناقشة قانون الإنترنت ومطالبة بمنع عرض الفيلم المسيء

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

تحول النقاش حول قانون الإعلام وتمكين الحكومة من مراقبة الإنترنت ومنع المحتويات المدمرة لعقول الأطفال إلى مطالبة السيناتور "أصلان جتاروف" -المدعي العام- بمنع عرض الفيلم الأمريكي المسيء، مُعتبرًا الفيلم أسوأ

من أفلام الفجور التي تستغل الأطفال؛ حيث تم وصف الفيلم بأنه "متطرف" يستهدف المسلمين وقام مكتب النائب العام برفع قضية لمنع عرض الفيلم المسيء.

وتأتي هذه الخطوة في إطار استنكار بعض السياسيين الروس للفيلم المسيء للمسلمين الذين يشكلون 10% من السكان في "روسيا"؛ أي بنحو 14.5 مليون مسلم؛ حيث أكد وزير الإعلام "نيكولاي نيكيفيروف" -في تعليق له على حسابه بـ"تويتر"-: ليس ذلك بمزحة، فبسبب هذا المقطع يمكن أن يحجب موقع "يوتيوب" بالكامل عن "روسيا"، وأكد أنه في حالة إقرار المحكمة مخالفة الفيلم المسيء للقانون فإن "يوتيوب" سيلزمه منع عرضه في "روسيا". المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Anti-Muslim Film Tests Russian Child-Pornography Law

The uproar surrounding the anti-Islamic film "The Innocence of Muslims," having claimed the life of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, is taking on a different form in Russia: It is testing the government's willingness and ability to censor the Internet.

Back in July, as part of President Vladimir Putin's campaign to intimidate dissenters, the Russian parliament passed a law that liberal activists warned would allow prosecutors to shut down any website the government found disagreeable. Titled “On protecting children from information damaging to their health and development,” and coming into effect on Nov. 1, the law was presented by its creators as an attempt to curb child pornography and ban sites providing suicide instructions. As the law's chief drafter, Yelena Mizulina, told the newspaper Izvestia: “A reputable website has nothing to fear. Only those that systematically aid pedophiles and the corruption of children will suffer.”

Then came the release on YouTube of the offending film, which sparked riots in the Muslim world with its claims that, among other things, the Prophet Muhammed was a pedophile. As radical protestors mobbed U.S. embassies, the Russian airwaves filled with conspiracy theories. “A revolution devours not only its children but its parents and sponsors,” said commentator Mikhail Leontyev on Russian state television. “There is a theory that this film is a product of anti-Obama election technology meant to prove that Obama's policies have failed.”

Russia is not a Muslim country, but Islam is its second most followed religion after Orthodox Christianity. According to the 2002 census, about 10 percent of the nation's population, or about 14.5 million people, belong to traditionally Muslim ethnic groups. These include the Chechens, who for 10 years waged a bloody guerilla war against the Russian army and who almost seceded from the Russian Federation in 1996. Some Internet users in the Chechen Republic joined a three-day boycott of Google and YouTube to protest against The Innocence of Muslims. “We will not allow these devils to insult Muslims,” Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said.

Suddenly, Russia's new Internet law wasn't just about children anymore. On September 17, Senator Ruslan Gattarov that the Prosecutor General act against the film, reasoning that The Innocence of Muslims was “no better than child pornography, only this was directed against Muslims.” The Prosecutor General's Office immediately proclaimed the movie “extremist” and filed suit to ban it. Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov tweeted: “This is no joke. Because of this clip, YouTube as a whole could be completely blocked in Russia."

Some Twitter users called on Nikiforov to reconsider. “This is like Pakistan,” wrote user Pavel Senko. “A disgrace." Pakistan shut off its citizens' access to YouTube because of the anti-Islamic film. Eventually, Nikoforov relented, saying that if the Russian court rules The Innocence of Muslims illegal, “YouTube will block the clip for Russian viewers.” The Google service has, in fact, done that for several Muslim countries.