If you don't succeed, try to suppress the free flow of information again.
That appears to be the thinking of the Russian government, which on Monday, March 21, officially banned Facebook and Instagram from the country for failing to police discussion of Russia's ongoing and deadly invasion of Ukraine. According to a Russian state-owned media outlet, the service owned by Meta remains unbanned.
The activities of the social networks, owned by the American company Meta, were banned in Russia on Monday by the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow.
The AP confirmed the Monday article.
The court order made official the effort to block access to Facebook within Russia. The Russian government agency responsible for censoring the media said on March 4 that they would block Facebook for violating Russian law.
On March 4, 2022, a decision was made to block access to the Facebook network in the Russian Federation.
We reached out to Meta, but they didn't reply immediately. On March 11, Adam Mosseri, the head ofInstagram, wrote about the Russian government trying to block access to the photo sharing website.
This decision will cut 80 million in Russia off from one another, and from the rest of the world as 80% of people in Russia follow an account outside their country, he wrote.
The Russian court system approved the severing.
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