Russian protesters waved this banner in December 2011 in an outcry over Vladimir Putin and Russia's presidential elections. Would similar actions online be proscribed under the proposed blacklist legislation?
(Credit: CBS News video/Screenshot by CNET's Jonathan Skillings)
The Russian parliament has voted to approve a controversial bill that would see "illegal" websites blacklisted from the Web.
The bill proposed that websites that incited suicide or drug use, or offered 'extremist' material -- or any content deemed 'illegal' under Russian law -- could be added to a government-operated blacklist that would see the sites blocked to Russia's 145 million citizens.
Websites found breaching the law would have 24 hours to remove offending material, after which they would face blacklisting.
The bill was amended before today's parliamentary hearing to limit the threat of immediate blacklisting to sites containing child abuse imagery and those that promote drug use or suicide.
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