Responsibility on online platforms
The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a bill to counter the spread of trash streams.
Deputies of the State Duma approved the third bill from the package banning trash streams. Amendments are being made to the federal laws «On information, information technology and information protection» and «On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development».
As stated in the documents, the responsibility for responding to trash streams will lie with online platforms, which will have to identify and remove relevant content. Also, sites containing photo and video materials depicting illegal acts committed with cruelty and the consequences of such acts, as well as calls for their commission, will be subject to prohibition and blocking.
As stated by the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, all these laws — the state's reaction to citizens' appeals.
People ask to protect, first of all, children and adolescents from content that has a detrimental effect on the still fragile children’s psyche and gives rise to cruelty and violence in society. For the sake of hype and earnings, some are literally ready to do anything, including murder, abuse of children and animals. This must be stopped