ON NOVEMBER 11th Russian internet-users began to notice that
Lurkmore, a sometimes funny, often vulgar website with a cult
following, was no longer accessible. Lurkmore (pictured)
is a user-generated encyclopedia, a Russian-language wiki Wikipedia
focusing on obscure internet jokes and memes, or what its
co-founder, Dmitry Homak, calls “the kind of stuff said by the
characters on SouthPark”. Although no one had officially told Mr
Homak anything, it soon became clear that the site had fallen into
the Russian government’s “Single Register” of web content to be
banned under a law passed by the Duma in June.