Head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media: introduction of state control for Internet traffic is not planned
According to the head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, Nikolai Nikiforov, the Russian government does not plan to introduce state control over Internet traffic. The minister said that the information about the development of the relevant draft law by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media was unreliable, TASS reports . “No control is expected. There is no control over the traffic, content, how the information goes - nothing like this is planned, ”he stressed.
In addition, Nikolai Nikiforov criticized the initiative of the State Duma to equate news aggregators to the media. "Trying to hang on the news aggregators responsibility for the information that is contained on the news sites themselves, it seems to us a rather strange form of shifting responsibility," said the head of the Ministry of Communications.
True, Nikiforov urged to wait until a possible bill nevertheless goes to the ministry. “We will prepare an appropriate review, the government will form a kind of consolidated position. Therefore, we will work on the procedure, ”he added.
Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has developed a bill on state control of Internet traffic in Russia. The bill allegedly provides for the need to amend such laws as “On Communications” and “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information”. The bill, as indicated by the media, provides several ways to monitor traffic on Russian channels. This is the creation of a registry of IP addresses of the RuNet, as well as “monitoring the use of global addressing resources and global identifiers of the Internet (DNS and IP addresses)”.
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The press secretary of President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, indirectly confirmed the document ’s existence. He explained how to understand this bill. In particular, Peskov points out that the document should not be considered the intention of the government to establish full control over the Internet. “It would be wrong to treat this as complete control over the Internet,” said Peskov. The official stressed that "any country depends largely on modern technologies, but they allow depriving entire countries of the national segments of the Internet."
In addition, Nikolai Nikiforov criticized the initiative of the State Duma to equate news aggregators to the media. "Trying to hang on the news aggregators responsibility for the information that is contained on the news sites themselves, it seems to us a rather strange form of shifting responsibility," said the head of the Ministry of Communications.
True, Nikiforov urged to wait until a possible bill nevertheless goes to the ministry. “We will prepare an appropriate review, the government will form a kind of consolidated position. Therefore, we will work on the procedure, ”he added.
Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has developed a bill on state control of Internet traffic in Russia. The bill allegedly provides for the need to amend such laws as “On Communications” and “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information”. The bill, as indicated by the media, provides several ways to monitor traffic on Russian channels. This is the creation of a registry of IP addresses of the RuNet, as well as “monitoring the use of global addressing resources and global identifiers of the Internet (DNS and IP addresses)”.
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The press secretary of President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, indirectly confirmed the document ’s existence. He explained how to understand this bill. In particular, Peskov points out that the document should not be considered the intention of the government to establish full control over the Internet. “It would be wrong to treat this as complete control over the Internet,” said Peskov. The official stressed that "any country depends largely on modern technologies, but they allow depriving entire countries of the national segments of the Internet."
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/357022/
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