Zhirinovsky's party again defended Youtube censors
The State Duma of the Russian Federation considered and adopted several bills relating to social networks today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A bill banning censorship by Internet portals was adopted in the second reading; YouTube and Facebook could theoretically fall under it. The project gives Roskomnadzor the right to block Internet resources that discriminate against Russian media.
At the first stage a warning will be issued. If the Internet platform does not correct the violation within the specified time frame, Roskomnadzor, in agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (since we are often talking about foreign legal entities), will contact the Prosecutor General’s Office. The agency will have the right to decide to partially block a particular resource, or to slow down its traffic. The last resort is a complete blockade in Russia.
LDPR deputy Sergei Ivanov criticized this bill. The party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky is still in the first reading came to the defense of YouTube.
“What did Trump do when Twitter began to bully him and label his posts as “untrustworthy”? He instructed his administration to think about how to influence them. They threw up their hands: we can’t do anything. We can only limit them in advertising that uses federal money.
What do our freedom of information fighters offer? It’s the same as if the mayor of the city, who was rude to the saleswoman, closes the store - everyone goes hungry. On Google yesterday, the news with Kiselev received 4700 views, and the publication of some car enthusiast received 2,9 million views.
We are offered to completely prohibit people from receiving information on how to cook a cake, just because someone thought that his publications were censored,” Ivanov said.
But the second bill, which introduces the concept of social networks, proposes to create a register of them and defines a list of information the dissemination of which is not allowed, was adopted unanimously and without discussion.
“The law is intended to push the largest social networks to more attentive, thorough and systematic work on monitoring, searching and limiting access to information prohibited for distribution on the territory of the Russian Federation,” explained deputy Sergei Boyarsky.
His colleague Alexander Khnshtein introduced an amendment that gives Roskomnadzor the right to send instructions to the owner of a social network to monitor prohibited content.
“A situation may arise when the owner of a social network deletes some content, but does not delete similar content (a swastika on a red background, not a black one),” Khinshtein explained the essence of the amendment.
In addition, today the State Duma adopted a bill that obliges cable television operators to provide access to Roskomnadzor to install means of technical control over compliance with media legislation.
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