A spokesman for Roskomnadzor compared Tor users with "social waste"

A spokesman for Roskomnadzor, Vadim Ampelonsky, believes that anonymous networks are a kind of thief area Khitrovka in Moscow. He told about this in a conversation with Lentoy.ru. Ampelon said:

“There was in the past and before the last century in Moscow such an area - Hitrovka. The criminal bottom, the habitat of social waste. Why did the Russian monarchy endure Hitrovka within walking distance of the place where the august were crowned? It is not known for certain, but apparently, having all the ghouls in one place, they were easier to control. [...] Here Tor is a global cybercooter. Created and managed by whom. What did Soviet power do to Khitrovka? Read from Gilyarovsky. "

According to the essays by Gilyarovsky , in the twenties the district was cleaned. Later it was renamed and turned into a hostel for workers.

On Thursday, Leonid Levin, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, made a proposal to restrict access to anonymous networks by Tor for network users. According to Levin, such measures will help prevent the spread of prohibited information and various kinds of malicious software. We are talking about services that allow you to mask the real external IP address of a computer on the Internet and bypass the blocking of prohibited sites: these are proxy, VPN, I2P, Tor. On the same day, it became known from Ampelonsky that Roskomnadzor supported Levin’s idea. The task of blocking anonymizers was called technically difficult, but solvable.