YouTube channels will be subject to the law on anonymization. This was announced by the Minister of Digital Development of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadayev. TASS.
It is emphasized that all social networks are covered by the law. Roskomnadzor plans to demand the disclosure of the identities of the owners of all information resources that more than 10 thousand Russians subscribe to. They will also be held responsible for the dissemination of prohibited information.
Before that in the State Duma supported Changes regarding the anonymization of public pages.
Amendments have been made to the second reading of the bill aimed at protecting Russian citizens from crimes committed via mobile communications.
According to Khinshtein, many such channels “surpass traditional media” in terms of influence, but their owners “are practically not responsible for the information disseminated, including false ones.”
The committee chairman stressed that there was no talk of blocking channels without identification information, but that they would not be able to advertise, collect donations and their posts would not need to be republished by other channels.
Formerly, the State Duma Information Policy Committee supported Tightening standards for issuing SIM cards.