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In reply to the discussion: Russian Parliament Approves New Law Restricting the Internet [View all]laurent
(57 posts)37. Policy details from the article.
The bill would require bloggers with 3,000 or more page-views a day to reveal their identities, fact-check their content, not disseminate extremist information or information violating privacy of citizens, and abide by the rules of pre-election silence....
Social-networking sites, blog hosts and other "organizers of disseminating of information on the Internet" may also be affected, as the bill requires them to store data on popular users' activity online for six months for potential use in police and other official investigations.
Social-networking sites, blog hosts and other "organizers of disseminating of information on the Internet" may also be affected, as the bill requires them to store data on popular users' activity online for six months for potential use in police and other official investigations.
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Wow - Some people here will be SO GLAD that Putin is getting the old USSR back together.
blm
Apr 2014
#1
This has to be heart breaking for many Russians who were happy to engage with the
karynnj
Apr 2014
#2
Guess he missed the part where I said Roberts was a "co-founder", Sir.
greatauntoftriplets
Apr 2014
#27
I wish I had the boomer sense to properly evaluate the plethoro of crap that PCR has written...
SidDithers
Apr 2014
#42
The internet is not gone here - and even if net neutrality is lost, it will still be here
karynnj
Apr 2014
#14
It is a bloddy mess for them. I was referring to the demonstrators in Moscow.
Jefferson23
Apr 2014
#43