Longtime readers know we sometimes give Russia a hard time. We love the citizens, but not so much how we feel the country treats them. And sometimes, Russia gives us a hard time. For instance, we just found out that we have been banned in Russia, not because of the articles on how to hack them or exposés about some of the dopey things they’ve done to their people, but because of a survival article on making Molotov cocktails. Apparently, excluding Vodka from the classic recipe has offended them.
Here’s the notice we received from Russia letting us know our website has been banned.
We should inform you that the URL https://www.geekslop.com/life/survival/combat-self-defense/2022/molotov-cocktails-how-to-make-molotov-cocktail contains forbidden content. You have been sent a notice from mailbox zapret-info-out@rsoc.ru and within one day the information was not deleted.
According to the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 № 149-FZ “On Information, Information Technology and Information Security” and the resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation on October 26, 2012 № 1101 this IP address and URL will be included to the “Unified register of domain names, Internet web-site page links and network addresses enabling to identify the Internet web-sites containing the information prohibited for public distribution in the Russian Federation” and will be blocked by communication operators on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Please inform us about the removal of information in the shortest time possible.
— Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (ROSKOMNADZOR).
At least now we can remove the firewall rule that blocks the Russian IP ranges…
