HRO proposed to close foreign sites with questionable content

The Presidential Council on Human Rights proposed amendments to the legislation, allowing the closure of sites located on foreign servers. This was November 19, the newspaper Izvestia reported . This time the excuse was the fight against fake certificates, diplomas and other legal documents.

- All of Moscow is hung up with announcements of the sale of forged documents. It is necessary to restore order in this area. There is a need for system measures to shut down foreign servers, amendments to legislation that allow closing sites registered outside of Russia. This is the same as websites about contract killings and terrorist attacks - if they are found, they cannot be closed, there are no such rights. This should be stopped, - the co-chair of the HRC and the head of the permanent commission on migration policy and the protection of human rights in the sphere of interethnic relations Yevgeny Bobrov said.

At the same time, Bobrov complained that the current norms (“black lists”) are not effective enough, since foreign providers do not obey Russian laws and can ignore the requirement of law enforcement agencies and various departmental structures of the Russian Federation.

The reaction from other structures did not make them wait: the deputy from the CPRF faction Valentin Shurchanov and member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Anton Korobkov-Zemlyansky spoke out positively about this initiative, the deputy from the Just Russia faction Andrei Tumanov spoke out, saying that the realization of this proposal is impossible without construction analogue of the Great Chinese Firewall.
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In my opinion, the most remarkable thing about this news is that the proposal to expand the bans on the Internet came from the Human Rights Council - the body dedicated to protecting these very rights.

via SecurityLab