Lawyers of the RoscomsVobod project, acting on behalf of the American non-profit organization The Tor Project Inc, filed the appeal and will Require the cancellation of the decision of the Saratov District Court, which led to the site blocking, directories and part of the bridge nodes of the anonymous network Tor .
Recall that the formal cause of blocking TOR has become accepted in 2017 by the decision, according to which the court declared to be illegal distribution on the website www.torproject.org browser-anonymizer Tor Browser, since with it users can access sites which contains information included in the federal list of extremist materials prohibited by distribution in the Russian Federation.
Representatives of Roscomsvoboda consider the decision unreasonable, illegal and subject to cancellation, as the RF law is not prohibited by the dissemination of information on VPN technologies and anonymizers, and The decision of the court violates the constitutional right to free provision, obtaining and disseminating information and the protection of the secrets of privacy. In addition, the case was considered without the participation of representatives of Tor, and in accordance with the position of the Supreme Court, any decision made without the participation of the site owner is nonreighted and violating the rights of the owner of the information resource.
Nevertheless, even if the decision of the Saratovsky district court will be canceled, the reason for the new TOR lock may become a violation of the Law on Information, which prescribes services that can be used to bypass access to the Content recognized in the Russian Federation with unlawful, connect to State Information System (FGIS) and implement access limitation on its own party. Not compliance with this requirement is currently the main reason for blocking VPN providers in the Russian Federation.