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The Russian government has threatened to ban Wikipedia over a page explaining charas, a hashish type of cannabis.
Roskomnadzor, the Kremlin's internet watchdog, has reportedly written to Wikipedia's administrators saying it will be ban the website in its entirety unless the entry - which basically provides a recipe - is removed.
According to Meduza, which calls itself 'the real Russia Today', Roskomnadzor has issued a statement: "In the event that Wikipedia refuses to comply with the court's ruling, [we] will block the webpage on Russia territory using th registry of illegal information."
The agency explains that it can't just block the one page because of the way Wikipedia's security settings work: "In this case, insofar as Wikipedia has decided to function on the basis of https, which doesn't allow restricting to
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