Russian senators promise to end Google's permissiveness
Russia will initiate the issue of restrictive measures for Western Internet giants at the level of international organizations. Senator Alexey Pushkov stated this on the Spas TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the politician, more and more countries around the world are concerned about unilateral censorship introduced by the largest media platforms and social networks, as well as the policy of double standards.
“It seems to me that we should raise the issue at the international level to limit the permissiveness, omnipotence and arbitrary actions of global network companies. This causes irritation not only in Russia, it causes irritation in Europe. Even Angela Merkel recently said that Twitter's decision was very controversial because freedom of speech, of course, can be limited in some cases, but only in accordance with the law, within the framework determined by the legislator, and not in accordance with the personal decisions of the head of social networks. media. Well, I’m ready to subscribe to this statement; it’s another matter whether she will further promote it, or whether she simply spoke out and will remain silent in the future.
But, in doing so, it demonstrates that in Europe they also view this with serious suspicion, and where will these social networks go next? They will generally throw out people of other views and impose their point of view on everyone. This question arises.
So I believe that this is a topic for the United Nations, this is a topic for the Council of Europe, for the OSCE, the UN Human Rights Council, that is, for all those organizations that are and should, by the nature of their activities, deal with ensuring the right to freedom of speech, ensuring the right to freely search, receive and disseminate information. All these international organizations should take a very serious look at this arbitrary practice of American chain companies.
We are now preparing a statement on this topic in the Federation Council, which we will consider next week and which will express the attitude of Russian legislators in the upper house to this harmful and very dangerous monopolistic practice of American Internet giants,” Pushkov said.
We would like to remind you that earlier the American video service YouTube blocked the accounts of a number of Russian media outlets; it is also known that there are restrictions on showing Russian documentaries published on the service’s platform.
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