I guess some Russian reader hand corrected the translation of the article. Otherwise, Google translate is very poor for Russian text. the best example is the translated sentence from the text that caused the ban:
"Skopostnye train DURING topmozhenii ppohod more about kilometpa" (...)
(The sentence makes advice where the person doing suicide is best to do it, related to trains. Don't correct it and please don't post it in full here).
Why not? It might be inconvenient to read, but it is an article about the censoring of that exact information. Celebrate freedom by translating it properly!
And having HN also banned in Russia? Is the particular banned information really worth it? It's a stupid "try to be funny" "how to do a suicide" text. Really not worth it, see the other comments. The inconvenience such things make to the users of the sites (country wide denial of service(!)) is much bigger than the possibility to change the opinion of some officials.
If you really want to provoke, try with those with which you share the language, get something banned in the UK, as the example:
I'm sure you can do it and also tell us how UK officials do senseless decisions. In fact, AFAIK, almost every European country has some form of internet censorship.
Thanks for the Wikipedia link, now we know what the basis for the text was. Obviously the author started from there and added his "funny" options like "start the third world war."
The author of the text tries to be "funny." One of the options is "Start the third world war. Any red button in some army facility in your vicinity? Are you some president?"
I can't imagine anybody will gain any insights from that "banned" information. kasthack links to the Wikipedia article that was an obvious starting point for the text, to which the "funny" parts were added.
"Skopostnye train DURING topmozhenii ppohod more about kilometpa" (...)
(The sentence makes advice where the person doing suicide is best to do it, related to trains. Don't correct it and please don't post it in full here).