Suddenly! Before the New Year in the Republic of Kazakhstan (not to be confused with the subject of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tatarstan), the
law was
passed on December 28, 2017, which introduced changes to the existing ones. Now you can leave comments only on the identification by EDS or via SMS.
Among other uninteresting, there were very interesting details, for example:
"The provision by the owner or owner of a publicly available electronic information resource for the service of placing information by the user is carried out on the basis of an agreement concluded in writing (including electronic), with identification on the portal of the" electronic government "or by using the subscriber number registered on the public information electronic resource user’s communication with sending a short text message containing a one-time password to send agreement.
Information is placed by the user under his own name or pseudonym (a fictitious name). Anonymization of personal data is carried out on the basis of and in the manner determined by agreement.
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The owner or owner of an electronic information resource is obliged to keep the information used in concluding an agreement for the entire period of validity, as well as for three months after the termination of the agreement. "
The law came into force on January 9 and already today a part of news resources that have Kazakhstani domain names closed commenting.
Welcome to the future, with authorization on sites with cats through the Kazakhstan analogue of GosSlug.
PS: sim cards in Kazakhstan are sold only upon presentation of an identity document. You can buy a sim card without a contract, but it will block pretty quickly.
PPS: the first news site that turned off comments:
yk-news.kz