Yes, what vlad_m said -- it's easier for a lot of us in the West to spell it Rozkom instead of Rozkomnadzor so it picked up the nickname. (I mean, I know Russian -- or knew, it's been years since I last studied it, and I can never remember how to spell it. Then again, my Russian spelling was always absolutely horrible.)
They basically send in lots of reports to various social media sites outside Russia and say "this post violates Russian law, you must take it down or we will block you". And then, if you're us, you go look at the post that "violates Russian law", go "wow, that's weird, there's nothing in that post but very mild criticism of the Russian government", and delete the report Rozkom sent you, which is why Rozkom blocks, like, most of DW inside Russia and also why most people living inside Russia are very good at evading ISP-level censorship. (It's illegal inside Russia for any ISP to not apply the Rozkom blocklist.)
We eventually said fuck it and now just filter out all of Rozkom's "you have to delete this post OR ELSE" messages, because I have literally never once received one for a post that was also a violation of US law or our ToS. Being a small, independent site means that we absolutely can say "no, actually, we will not be complicit in the Russian government's censorship of its people," because we don't actually have to stay in their good graces.
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They basically send in lots of reports to various social media sites outside Russia and say "this post violates Russian law, you must take it down or we will block you". And then, if you're us, you go look at the post that "violates Russian law", go "wow, that's weird, there's nothing in that post but very mild criticism of the Russian government", and delete the report Rozkom sent you, which is why Rozkom blocks, like, most of DW inside Russia and also why most people living inside Russia are very good at evading ISP-level censorship. (It's illegal inside Russia for any ISP to not apply the Rozkom blocklist.)
We eventually said fuck it and now just filter out all of Rozkom's "you have to delete this post OR ELSE" messages, because I have literally never once received one for a post that was also a violation of US law or our ToS. Being a small, independent site means that we absolutely can say "no, actually, we will not be complicit in the Russian government's censorship of its people," because we don't actually have to stay in their good graces.