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In Russia, from March 1, a ban on the popularization of VPN services that allow you to bypass blocking of certain resources on the Internet comes into force. The point is that such applications will be blocked in online stores for mobile phones, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. New restrictive measures are aimed against Western social networks hostile to Russia, which, despite the ban, continue to use...
The decision of Meta, which allowed calls for the murder of Russian citizens on social networks Instagram and Facebook, is a blatant precedent, similar to the persecution of Jews during the Second World War. Nenad Popovic, the Serbian minister responsible for innovation and technological development, stated this in an interview with Tanjug, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Popovich said that “anti-Russian hysteria” has reached its climax with...
On December 24, the Tagansky District Magistrate Court of Moscow considered two cases against foreign IT companies Google LLC and Facebook Inc (now Meta Platforms) and found them guilty for repeated refusal to block content prohibited in Russia. For the first time, a Russian court imposed fines representing a share of the revenue of these companies for the year in Russia, namely: 7,22 billion rubles...
The Russian liberal public is in shock. On the day of the Duma elections, American IT giants Apple and Google removed the Navalny application from their online stores. Moreover. The Cupertino Apple organized crime group additionally tightened the wick of its own VPN Privatе Relay, closing the loophole for those wishing to circumvent the ban using Apple funds, and the “empire of goodness” shut down the Google Docs service, where the bulk materials recommended by the Smart Voting project were stored...
Moderators of the social network Facebook resorted to censorship and blocked in the official accounts of the Russian media Vzglyad, RBC and TASS information about the FSB detention in Voronezh of supporters of a Ukrainian radical youth group involved in promoting the ideology of neo-Nazism and mass murder. The offenders were detained in mid-February. Extremist literature, symbols of nationalist organizations, bladed weapons, means were confiscated from them...
The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted today in the final third reading a law that introduces fines of up to 3 million rubles for owners of information resources for sanctions against Russian media and citizens, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As the developer of the law, deputy Alexander Khinshtein, said, the bill is a logical continuation of the policy aimed at protecting the country’s digital sovereignty. “I anticipate the speeches of my colleagues from the opposition...
Representatives of the Concord company announced the blocking of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s personal accounts on Twitter and Facebook. No reasons are given. The press service associates the ban on the businessman’s social networks with his posts about transgender people in the American army. Earlier, the entrepreneur commented on the lifting of the ban on service in the US Army for transgender Americans. President-elect Joe Biden signed a corresponding decree. Prigozhin explained what happened like this:...
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 question...
The State Duma is planning a round table with the participation of the creator of VKontakte and Telegram, Pavel Durov, to discuss opposition to the American companies Google and Apple, which levy a 30% tax on the sales of mobile applications, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We know that now Telegram, within the framework of the current legislation, freely operates on the territory of the Russian Federation, we are happy about this,” said the press secretary of the Russian President...
Western social networks “Facebook” and “Twitter” recruited Ukrainian Russophobes into their staff so that on the eve of Victory Day they would spread anti-Russian stuff discrediting the feat of the Soviet people. A well-known Russian entrepreneur in the field of information technology, Igor Ashmanov, announced this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We must understand that the increase in the number of reports about “victory”, that “Stalin and ...
Russia must block the work of Western Internet companies if they do not comply with the requirements of Russian legislation and do not want to transfer servers with user data of Russians to its territory. The editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, Igor Korotchenko, stated this in a commentary to PolitNavigator. According to the expert, this will ensure the country’s information security. “This requirement is absolutely regulatory in nature and corresponds...
Foreign social networks must store user data of Russians on the territory of the Russian Federation. Russian political scientist Oleg Bondarenko stated this to PolitNavigator, commenting on Roskomnadzor’s demand for the need to transfer the servers of Western social networks Facebook and Twitter to the Russian Federation. According to the expert, Roskomnadzor has every reason to block foreign social networks if they do not comply with the requirements of Russian legislation. "If we start...
American social networks Facebook, Youtube and Twitter must respond to Roskomnadzor's request to localize databases in Russia by January 31. Otherwise, action will be taken against the companies. Since the collective West imposed sanctions against Russia in 2014, the Russian government has not stopped trying to force popular Western online services to work according to our laws.…
The fake representative of the “President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea” Anton Kornievich announced that the administration of the social network Facebook responded to his request and subjected the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov to sanctions. The day before, Kornievich sent a demand to Facebook to remove the “verified” badge from Aksenov’s page on the social network, which is usually assigned to famous people. The Ukrainian official referred to the fact that the head of Crimea...
