Russia: Anti-Religious Online Group Closed

Posted 23 July 2010 10:18 GMT

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“Antireligion” group in the social network “Vkontakte“, with more than 8000 members, had been closed and its content deleted, ru_antireligion reports [RUS]. Prosecutor's office, that was checking the group for extremism [RUS], recognized photos of t-shirts with slogans “Orthodoxy or Death” [EN] as “extremist” and obliged administration of “Vkontakte” to close the group.

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CXW

Being an atheist is not synonymous being being “anti-religious”. It simply means one doesn’t believe in a god. Granted, many atheists are skeptical/negative towards religion, but please don’t conflate the two things automatically.

# 23 July 2010, 14:14 pm

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  thanks for the correction, CXW. I will update the title.
  
  # 23 July 2010, 16:06 pm
  
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[...] on Vkontakte was shut down. Vkontakte has also closed several other groups, for example the ‘Anti-religion' group with nearly 8,000 members in July 2010. In July 2011, after several moderators of protest groups in [...]

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