Russia bans Shutterstock domain because of photo showing national flag planted in poop.
Russia’s federal censor has added one of the domains operated by the American stock photography provider “Shutterstock” to its registry of banned online resources. According to MBK Media, Roskomnadzor added image.shutterstock.com to its blacklist on the basis of a decision by the Attorney General’s Office on November 13.
The website Roskomsvoboda, which monitors Internet freedom in Russia, says officials started blocking the domain on November 28. Shutterstock users and Roskomsvoboda have also shared hyperlinks to the image that caused the domain’s ban: a photograph of a miniature Russian flag planted in a moldy pile of feces. At the time of this writing, the image is still accessible at Shutterstock.
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Russia’s federal censor has added one of the domains operated by the American stock photography provider “Shutterstock” to its registry of banned online resources. According to MBK Media, Roskomnadzor added image.shutterstock.com to its blacklist on the basis of a decision by the Attorney General’s Office on November 13.
The website Roskomsvoboda, which monitors Internet freedom in Russia, says officials started blocking the domain on November 28. Shutterstock users and Roskomsvoboda have also shared hyperlinks to the image that caused the domain’s ban: a photograph of a miniature Russian flag planted in a moldy pile of feces. At the time of this writing, the image is still accessible at Shutterstock.
read more (Meduza)