The Russian Censorship committee and web regulator (Roskomnadzor) has included 29 pages of the Onion.to domain into the list of websites forbidden in Russia, the leading Russian media Gazeta.ru reports.
Roskomnadzor, the agency responsible for censorship measures implementation, followed the decision by the Federal Service of Drugs Control. The current law in Russia allows Roskomnadzor to put websites with restricted content on a special list, which is then sent to Internet providers with the requirement to block the access to those pages.
The reason given by the authorities is that the Tor network is used to sell drugs for bitcoins. Internet providers are required to block the access to the specified drug-related websites that operate via Tor. However, those providers that block pages by IP address will automatically restrict access to the whole Onion.to domain. This is what happened with the two giant communication providers Beeline and Rostelecom. But even those providers that block pages using URL-addresses will have to ban the whole network because it uses the https crypted protocol.
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