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| Facebook blocks human rights groups at the request of the Uzbek authorities |
| 2021-08-12 |
| Direct translation via Google Translate [REGNUM] The Uzbek authorities have come to a secret agreement with Facebook that the latter will remove human rights groups that are undesirable for Uzbekistan in this social network, a competent source told REGNUM news agency . “The Uzbek authorities have shown Facebook that they can seriously impede the work of this social network. For example, about six months ago, Uzbek users complained that access to Facebook was not available or limited. The American network made the appropriate conclusions from this and decided to make concessions, ”said the agency's source. According to him, the background of the event can be briefly described as follows: Uzbekistan demanded that Facebook install its servers in the republic, but then, after some negotiations, the parties agreed that Facebook, in order not to spend money and create unnecessary inconveniences for itself, would simply sacrifice the fruits of labor of human rights activists: block pages and groups that are objectionable to the Uzbek authorities. "In order to create a basis for blocking pages and groups, Facebook has developed a mechanism - mass warnings of violations are sent to resource administrators indicated by the Uzbek authorities. At the same time, there are no violations, as such, just nagging on the part of Facebook in order, as noted above, to sum up the base. And after a while the groups are blocked," the source said. In particular, he said, such popular groups in Uzbekistan as Law and Order, Fergana Valley, Uyat.uz and others were blocked. "All these groups had tens of thousands of subscribers and were exclusively engaged in human rights activities, which the Uzbek authorities considered dangerous for themselves," the source said. Good thing for the government of Uzbekistan to block free speech in Uzbekistan before the Taliban can, right? |
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