The Public Council under the FSB of Russia has denied reports of developing recommendations restricting freedom on the Internet. On this June 5 reports TASS-Telecom.
The Council explained that at the meeting on the issue of Internet security, there were different opinions expressed, but no specific decisions regarding restrictions on the Internet were made.
The Council, as stated in the statement, “never made such proposals, did not make such statements, and did not give any recommendations to the legislature.”
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Earlier, on May 5, news agencies reported that the Public Council under the FSB proposed to legally prohibit anonymizers and other programs and tools to hide the data of Internet users.
Also, as reported, the FSB director Alexander Bortnikov said that the special services, security agencies and law enforcement agencies change their defensive tactics against extremist sites to offensive ones. “It is necessary to move from the tactics of identifying, fixing and blocking the work of sites used by extremists in their activities to active information work in cyberspace,” Borovikov said.
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