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| Russia suffocates access to Twitter due to protests |
Russia said on Wednesday that it is imposing on Twitter its inability to remove the banned content and threatening that if the US platform fails to comply with the upload request, it will block it completely.
The move exacerbated the growing confrontation between Moscow and US social media companies. The move began weeks after Russian authorities accused Twitter and others of not deleting their statements: They illegally urged children to participate in protests against the Kremlin at the palace. .
Russia has always played a more important role than China in not interfering with internet monitoring. However, with the arrest and detention of Kremlin critic Alexei Navani, internal political tensions increased this year and the Russian government took a more assertive stance. Site.
The national communications organization Roskomnadzor said in a statement that more than 3,000 posts on Twitter contain illegal content, and Twitter has been accused of ignoring the deletion request for many years.
Interfax quoted a Moscow court as saying: After Russia was included in the five social media platforms that filed a lawsuit for not deleting messages asking children to participate in illegal protests, Twitter came under pressure in Russia.
The regulator did not mention any content related to the opposition protests in a statement on Wednesday, but it did mention what it said: This is illegal content that includes child pornography, news of drug abuse and minor suicides.
The regulator said: The delay has been applied to 100% of mobile devices and 50% of non-mobile devices. If Twitter continues to ignore legal requirements, it will continue to take action until it is blocked completely.
Interfax news agency quoted the organizers as saying: This step affects the visual content and images, not the text.
The Kremlin said there is no will to block content, but companies must comply with the law, but some activists say they believe these restrictions are linked to recent protests.
Roskomsvoboda (Roskomsvoboda) defends internet freedom defender Sarkis Darbinian, saying: The main motive is the increase in street protests. Ten years have passed since the "Arab Spring". They realize that the Internet is power and they want to control the Internet. The Internet is related to the control of the information space.
According to Interfax, if you do not adhere to the law, these agencies can contact other internet platforms by relying on the regulators.
In December, the House of Commons imposed massive new fines on platforms that cannot remove blocked content and other laws, and to restrict them if they discriminate against Russian media.
Moscow has gradually introduced stricter internet laws in recent years, forcing search engines to suppress certain search results and forcing email services to share encryption keys with authorized agencies. The platform stores data from users through Russian servers.