Coming to a country near you, at some point

“Since this year, the Federal Protective Service (FSO) will conduct daily monitoring of all publications by Russian bloggers on their attitude to the government. ‘Powers’ will create a special database of negatively minded citizens who post on their Internet sites publications of opposition (dissident) leaning. At the same time representatives of FSO intend to follow not only known bloggers from the capital, but also control web users from the regions. This was told to Izvestia by a source close to FSO.

"’It is not about control or tightening some nuts. It is just that when we'll be able to monitor bloggers and create a database, it will become easier to track and prevent many egregious incidents. For example, before the two activists of the banned National Bolshevik Party pelted with tomatoes the King of the Netherlands in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the information on the preparation of this act has been already on the web. If it were followed, then this would not have happened,’ said the anonymous source.”

http://www.simplyjews.blogspot.co.il/

(Yeah, it’s Russia, so what’s the surprise? It’s not like the US of A gob-ment has anything like the FSO to keep track of negatively minded citizen tomato throwers.)