“Russian Observer”, under pressure from law enforcement agencies, introduces pre-moderation of comments to articles

Old-timers Habrakhabr remember, of course, a formal written warning from Roskomnadzor to the website of the APS, which administrators did not react to an email demanding to remove some comments from the site within 24 hours ([ 1 ], [ 2 ]), held a year ago Since several such warnings are legally sufficient to shut down the media, then (in 2010) the site of the APN preferred to completely turn off commenting on articles.

A year has passed, and now another online publication, “Russian Observer,” tells that they were called from Petrovka and requested data from users who left aggressive (“extremist”) comments on a single record six months ago, and one of the employees of the RO "Summoned to the conversation in structure E.

After thinking about where this trend might lead, and not wanting to become an informant for the authorities in the future, they cut down the “RO system” in the Russian Observer until they come up with clear rules for the pre-moderation of comments.
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So the police forces once again prevailed over the freedom of expression, and the consequences affected even those readers who behaved moderately.