Russia wants to force digital platforms to moderate the content published on them and immediately remove anything that violates the law. The relevant bill is already being developed in the State Duma, said Anton Nemkin, member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications from “Parlamentskaya Gazeta”.
“HE [законопроект] It will especially affect platforms such as Yandex.Music, where Roskomnadzor manually detects subversive content. “Large fines will be imposed as punishment for violators, maybe this way we can reach them,” he said.
According to him, the removal of banned content will be similar to that in social networks, where the number of fakes has increased significantly. Nemkin added that the main reason for this is the “information war” against Russia and that all kinds of methods are used to “destabilize the situation” in the country.
Anton Nemkin in mid-October aforementionedThat in Russia it is necessary at the legislative level to strengthen the fight against botnets – computer networks containing malware that allow attackers to carry out cyber attacks and steal user data.
Formerly in the State Duma in the name VPN services are subject to blocking.