After the Kremlin's media and Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor decided that leading pornographic website Pornhub would be banned alongside sister company YouPorn on Wednesday, the adult content giant took to Twitter with a little banter.
In response to Pornhub's proposal to grant Roskomnadzor access to its premium content, the communications watchdog said that "demography" was not a commodity.
All Pornhub and YouPorn URLs were added to Russia's registry of illegal content. Roskomnadzor justified this decision by referencing a May 2016 ruling by a local court that had concluded that the websites violated Russia's ban on the dissemination of pornographic information and paraphernalia.
Though Russia's current laws do not forbid the consumption of pornographic content, such cannot is illegal to produce.
Though, in April 2015, a court in Tatarstan ruled that all Internet pornography was illegal in the country, major websites continued to work in Russia.
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