From the Kremlin:

“Negotiations on cooperation with the largest international Internet social platform as part of maintaining the register of information whose dissemination is banned in Russia had been held since the moment the first entries appeared in the register with references to those tweets. The administration of Twitter had had no practice of interaction with foreign governmental bodies on the removal or restriction of illegal content, and this made the negotiations difficult. The constructive position of the administration of the resource made it possible to formulate a mutually acceptable interaction algorithm that makes it possible to have information from the register processed within periods acceptable to the Russian side.”

Or: For the first time, a government told Twitter what to do, and Twitter responded “Yes Sir, yes Sir, three bags full.”

http://pjmedia.com/blog/twitter-caves-to-vladimir-putin-censors-content-within-russia/?singlepage=true

Is that a problem, if most Russians believe government should control access to information?

‘Most Russians support censorship online’

“’Young people and those with a high level of education and living standards are likely to be more sensitive about having their freedoms limited,’ said Grazhdankin. Yet, overall responses were fairly uniform: even amongst those who use the Internet as their main source of political news, 61 percent of respondents came out in favor of censorship, with just 29 percent voicing opinions against it.”

http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/10/16/most_russians_support_censorship_online_19163.html

If most Russians don’t care that Twitter and the Putin government censor free speech, should we?

Link at maggiesfarm.