Roskomnadzor heroically prevented the suicides of schoolchildren who are being zombied through VKontakte groups

VKontakte community administrators staged suicides as a joke. Roskomnadzor blocked 8 groups. Administrators can put

Roskomnadzor organized on May 17 a press conference for federal channels of Russian television, where he reported on a successful special operation to prevent suicides of Russian children and teenagers.

Thanks to the efforts of Roskomnadzor, it was possible to block 8 VKontakte private groups that promoted suicide. In addition, "administrators of several large communities were identified who deliberately pushed subscribers to suicidal behavior," writes Roskomnadzor. These guys face criminal penalties.


^{Head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov tells federal television journalists about the achievements of Roskomnadzor to combat suicide, May 17, 2016}
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“Since Roskomnadzor does not have the function of operational-search activity, the materials (identification data and screenshots) were transferred to the department“ K ”of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. I am confident that the joint work of users, the administration of social networks, Roskomnadzor and the competent authorities will give a positive result. Such people should be identified and punished, ”said Alexander Zharov, head of Roskomnadzor.

The journalists of the federal TV channels gladly picked up the “hot story”. Yesterday and today on several TV channels of the Russian Federation there were plots about how children are zombied through VKontakte groups , with a demonstration of hypnotic spirals on the TV screen.

In fact, the main goal of the creators of the so-called “groups of death” was not appeals to suicide, but an attempt to become famous in the vast network.

The bottom line is that community administrators jokingly handed out to users users serial numbers according to which they were supposed to commit suicides in turn, but the joke gradually got out of control: see the journalistic investigation of “Novaya Gazeta” and the journalistic investigation of Lenta.ru on this topic how it all began and how it ended.



One of the f57 communities decided to pretend to be a sect that distributed such numbers: “In early December 2015, the participants of the groups conducted a large-scale Internet flash mob, in which dozens of schoolchildren pretended to commit suicide, the administrators of the death groups agreed in advance with them about the dramatization of suicide. The participants of the flash mob uploaded photos or videos of suicides onto their walls, and then for several months did not enter the social network, so that everyone would believe in their death. After the alleged suicides, other members of such groups began to massively subscribe to their pages and like alleged death-posts. That was the main purpose of the flash mob. ”


^{List of "sawed out" participants flashmob}

Now the Vkontakte community administrators will have to explain to the investigating authorities that such a flash mob is what the “ciphers” mean in public chats.



“Some ciphers, a lot of letters of incomprehensible content, a video without much sense, accompanied by music that pumped up and caused internal excitement. The usual psychedelic, but the rumor that it enters into a state of depression, after which suicide follows, has literally spread in two days, ” says the creator of one of the groups under the name Sea of ​​Whales about other“ death groups ”. He explains that he himself led the counter-propaganda of suicide and assigned numbers to subscribers to make it easier for them to communicate.