Work on the draft on the preliminary filtering of the runet is suspended: it is unclear how to implement it and who will pay

Elena Mizulina, through her representative, transmitted to Vedomosti information about the suspension of work on the draft law on preliminary filtering of the RuNet. The main reasons are: it is not determined who will finance the implementation of the bill, and how to do it technically. If industry experts clarify these issues, the work will continue.

The chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Elena Mizulina in 2014 proposed filtering the default Internet to protect children from harmful information. In an interview with Mizulina, she suggested that in order to “cleanse” the home Internet, a number of manipulations should be done, including the purchase and adjustment of parental control. She proposed to make a "clean" Internet at the operator level. To gain access to the rest of the network, the user must confirm the age and enter into an additional agreement.

Representatives of the Safe Internet League and the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, discussed preliminary filtering of the runet on Wednesday, April 1. The bill operators need to create a technical solution to block sites from the blacklist. Two pre-filtering models are being considered now: pre-filtering and the use of white-listed sites.

The solution proposed by LBI is inefficient in technical terms, since semantic filtering algorithms can work only with text, but not with audio, video and photo content. In addition, such algorithms are not able to filter encrypted data transfer protocols (HTTPS, VPN or TOR), whose share in the traffic of operators is growing rapidly. ”Dmitry Solodovnikov, a representative of MTS.