“Clearly, we will not comply with this demand,” the company said in a statement today. (It’s the current affairs bit that has riled the Russians.) The move comes after Brainly refused to remove content from Znanija describing the Ukraine war earlier this week from the Knowledge Base, Brainly’s big directory of questions and answers that people can search across for specific general knowledge, current affairs or tips on how to solve, for example, a quadratic equation. Now that appears to be shifting.īrainly, the Polish startup best known as a popular platform for crowdsourcing homework help from other students and trained tutors, says that Roskomnadzor, the Russian communications, information technology and mass media regulator, has blocked Znanija, the company’s local site. Russia’s crackdown on news media, and specifically sites that present the country’s government in a critical light, has been well documented, but less so the impact that this censorship is having in other areas like education.
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