Websites and human rights advocates were quick to criticize a proposed law in Russia that would grant the government wide-ranging powers to restrict Internet content. Among those protesting the law was Wikipedia, which on Tuesday shut down its Russian website and posted a message decrying Russia's proposal as "extrajudicial censorship." Wikipedia staged a similar protest earlier this year when it took its English-language site offline to protest proposed antipiracy legislation in the U.S.
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