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A protest against Russian proposals to block websites deemed illegal has brought out the web's big beast, after the bill was passed by the lower house of the country's parliament.

The Duma passed bill  89417-6, in which the government proposed creating a blacklist of websites containing child porn, drug-related and extremist material and other content deemed illegal.

A protest had seen Wikipedia go black on Tuesday.

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