Twitter has bowed to pressure from Russian Czar Vladimir Putin to block all content blacklisted by Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Communications. Putin’s government reports that since early March, Twitter has “actively been engaged in cooperation” with Russian authorities already. Twitter has already deleted pinpointed accounts and is restricting access on the basis of “five information materials” as determined by Russian authorities. In a statement from the Kremlin, Twitter’s cooperation with the massive censorship policy was praised. Negotiations on cooperation with the largest international Internet social platform as part of maintaining the register of
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