Blocked Bitcoin Websites Fight Government Censorship in Russian Court
Representatives of Smile Expo and BTCsec.com, two of the many websites that have been blocked by the Russian government in 2014 attended the first session of Sverdlovsk Oblast court, for an attempt to free the websites from restricted access in Russia. In October 2014, Russia’s Ministry of Finance proposed a draft of the “Russian Bitcoin Ban Legislation”, with hopes to ban bitcoin in Russia by 2015. Around the same time, Russian Telecom Regulator Roskomnadzor blocked access to sites dedicated to Cryptocurrency, including bitcoin.org, hasbitcoin.ru, bitcoin.it, btcsec.com, etc. due to a....
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