In Russia blocked the Vimeo video hosting

Prosecutor General's office urged from Roskomnadzor add a Vimeo video hosting are not in the list of allowed web sites. The reason for the block was a video of a proscribed organisation.

Social media has discovered information that the video sharing website Vimeo is blocked. This requirement was put forward by the Prosecutor's office of Russia. Previously Roskomnadzor found on the pages of the resource published a video titled "Flame war" that has put a prohibited organization "Islamic state".

This video was interested General Prosecutor's office of power that urged immediate lock this web page. Despite the presence of hyperlinks on the exact video, technical root causes locks the entire website. This is because the Vimeo video hosting operates on the encrypted HTTPS Protocol, which does not allow to filter a page resource.

At the moment when trying to visit Vimeo is issued to the news, the usual cases of locked pages by Roskomnadzor is that access to the resource is restricted in accordance with claim legislation.

Remember that at the end of 2014 Roskomnadzor at the request of the Prosecutor General's office has already blocked access to the web site Vimeo. Then it was reported that "in the unified register of prohibited information made the index page of the website containing the video of the terrorist organization "Islamic state" - "Flame war". To unlock the resource took a few hours.

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