: Multiple videos, including "Putin Has Pissed Himself," are on the federal list of extremist materials. Legal and Technical Restrictions
Authorities and platforms are using several technical and legal "patches" to enforce these bans: banned uncensored uncut music videos russia patched
In the decade since the Russian government began aggressively expanding its "information sovereignty" laws, a strange new category of digital artifact has entered the lexicon of the post-Soviet user: the banned uncensored uncut music video. : Multiple videos, including "Putin Has Pissed Himself,"
Early 2023, users relied on @Get_Back_Video bots on Telegram. You pasted a YouTube link to a banned video; the bot returned a re-encoded .mp4 hosted on a Dutch server. Roskomnadzor forced Telegram to ban 3,000+ such bots and throttled IP ranges from the Netherlands. You pasted a YouTube link to a banned
Russia's approach to censorship has been described as a "patchwork" of different techniques and strategies. Authorities have employed a range of methods to block access to banned music videos, including: