Russia is trying to ban porn using a 100-year-old law

Russia isn"t exactly known for it"s liberal stance on, well, anything recently, and it seems poography is the next thing to feel Putin"s iron fist fall upon it.

The Russian inteet watchdog Roskomnadzor announced yesterday they plan to block 136 po sites following a court ruling that cited inteational laws which came into force in 1920 and 1923.

These laws (which were made when the last Tsar and his family were still alive) focus on the distribution of obscene materials, according the The Moscow Times.

A Roskomnadzor spokesperson confirmed both domestic and inteational sites would be blocked in carrying out the court order, however she wouldn"t name any sites individually.

‘This is the first time that a single decision by a court contains a requirement to restrict access to such a large number of poography-orientated websites. Total traffic to these sites is in the millions of visits," Roskomnadzor"s top spokesman, Vadim Ampelonsky, told Russian paper Izvestia.

Shocking though it may be, it is only another step in Russian state"s apparent attack on inteet freedom.

Russia recently tried to ban memes, to which the world responded accordingly.