Roskomnadzor sent a notice to owners of Discord and Yappy services about their inclusion in Russia’s social network registry. information about this seen On the official website of the Ministry.
The inclusion of Discord and Yappy in the register of social networks means that the owners of these Internet platforms must independently identify and block prohibited content in accordance with the requirements of the law “On self-regulation of social networks” of February 2021. Russian Federation. Services should also include a tool in their interfaces that will allow Russians to report illegal material.
Roskomnadzor has been keeping the record since 2021. For several years it included 15 services such as VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Twitter and more.
“According to the law, the registration includes resources where users disseminate information using personal pages, and there are also advertisements aimed at Russian consumers. The daily traffic of such resources should be more than 500 thousand Russian users,” explained RKN.
During the existence of the registry, RKN, interacting with the administrators of the Internet resources contained in it, removed more than 300 thousand materials from social networks. These included content containing child pornography, suicidal and pro-drug content.
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