In a completely unexpected way, the “Foundation for the Development of Civil Society” announced its intention to introduce a bill on the blocking of resources “calling for violence”. And although the report itself has not yet been officially published, according to an interview with the head of the foundation, statements like “judge on soap” or something at the level “I am shaking your face”, said as part of an innocent online box by correspondence, can be grounds for blocking
Konstantin Kostin, Chairman of the Civil Society Development Fund, formerly Chief of one of the divisions of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Photo Forbes.
The main purpose of this initiative is to block groups / communities / topics in which attacks on government officials are coordinated (sic!), And if they cannot be blocked by the owners of the resource, access to the resource is completely disabled through the providers.
More information about the initiative can be found in the
recording of the TV channel “Rain” .
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/ * And although it’s not comme ilforate to descend to emotions, I like the facts journalism much more, but as a simple person who is going to build his own business in the network, the situation has disgusted me to the degree of “never in my life” and to move. ” In the web 2.0 century, one developer can create sites that are filled with content completely uncontrollably - and this is just a good thing, demand in some places is ahead of supply. But for this fantastic feature of the network, you can pay an extremely high price - to completely or partially lose your business due to "misunderstandings" like the
happened shutdown of Yandex . Only Yandex will be able to fight back, but a lone developer will not. * /
PS It becomes even sadder from the words of representatives of the foundation
“social networks play a secondary role in relation to traditional media when disseminating information about protests .
” It can be concluded that the risks of blocking publications like Lenta.ru in Kazakhstan during certain events will appear in Russia.