Ten years from the beginning of mass communication in LiveJournal in Russian. And also: a possible start to the pro-Kremlin monitoring of the blogosphere.

On February 1, 2001, Roman Leibov wrote his first blog post in LiveJournal, from which the more or less mass popularization of this popular blog hosting site began among bloggers writing in Russian. In connection with the tenth anniversary of this day on Lente.Ru photo gallery of a number of famous bloggers LiveJournal was posted . (They did not forget me either, although this year it will be five years since I quit blogging in LJ.)

These ten years have passed. What does Live Magazine promise the future? Is the future of the Russian blogosphere now as it was ten years ago so cloudless and informal? I'm afraid not. Russian News Agency "New Region" reports that freedom of speech on the web will be significantly limited: in RuNet (not only in LiveJournal, but also in the mass social networks Odnoklassniki and VKontakte) there will be official "warriors" who collectively receive " millions of dollars in funding and intent on tracking all types of publications in order to report some authors to law enforcement agencies. They will be managed by the general director of Rostelecom. The “New Region” agency also adds (I quote) that “state financing will be enough to pay for the current army of trolls from pro-Kremlin organizations that have been actively shaping the Runet since the beginning of the zero years.”

Really, I do not know how much this news can be trusted. Especially its last element. Some consider the pro-Kremlin “brigade” on the Web to be nothing more than an urban legend, others believe in its existence holy. But the fact remains: under the slogan of cleansing the blogosphere from “child pornography, drug addiction, violence, fascism and extremism propaganda”, intervention in it is intended. To what extent the framework of understanding of what “violence” or “extremism” will be extended , time will tell.
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_{Overhang: roughly the same thing is reported by Alexey_S with a link to the publication in Kommersant Gazette, where it is said that tomorrow (Monday, February 7) the creation of the non-profit partnership “League of Safe Internet” will be announced, with the Minister personally heading communications and mass communications - Igor Olegovich Shchyogolev. So, if this is a newspaper duck, then it is large-scale.}