Public Chamber offers to slow down traffic for unregistered platforms

MOSCOW, Aug 27 (PRIME) – Russia should limit Internet speed for the unregistered social networks and messengers that do not pay taxes in the country, Yekaterina Mizulina, Public Chamber’s member of the committee for information society development, said on Thursday.

“Social networks and messengers are to be officially registered on the territory of the Russian Federation, pay taxes here and show how much they earn from advertising, targeting or promotion. They must appoint an official representative in Russia,” Mizulina’s speech said.

“If they do not obey, the regulator is to limit the speed of a service or a platform.” 

Mizulina also called for additional obligations for social networks to reveal destructive content, to monitor and block such information, react to users’ complaints.

“Social networks should open their standards of moderation to the whole world and demonstrate how and why they block this or that information. Certainly, it should be done in a depersonalized manner. We must demand from the companies to define what they do not tolerate on their platforms and show how it is done in practice,” she said.

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