Twitter is in danger of slowing down or being completely blocked

Kremlin relations

Roskomnadzor said that Twitter is in danger of slowing down its work in Russia or it can be completely blocked.

According to Roskomnadzor, there is too much prohibited content in the social network — drugs, terrorism and suicide. Social networks should block such content on their own, but Twitter simply ignores these requirements.

Twitter must remove 28 thousand prohibited materials. If you ignore the requirements, the company will be obliged to pay a fine.

“Violation of the procedure for restricting access to illegal content, failure to delete prohibited information by the owner of an Internet resource entails the imposition of an administrative fine on legal entities in the amount of 800 thousand to 8 million rubles. In the case of a repeated offense, the fine amount increases to one-fifth of the total amount of the company’s annual revenue, “— Roskomnadzor reported.

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Recall that Twitter often uses blocking as a tool to combat unwanted content. Most recently, US President Donald Trump was banned, and the social network also restricted access to Russian media materials and froze about 100 accounts, accusing them of pro-Russian propaganda.

Roskomnadzor sent a letter to the administration of the social network. As stated in the letter, starting from March 10, the work of Twitter will slow down to protect citizens of the Russian Federation

An expert in the field of information technology Igor Ashmanov expressed a possible reason for ignoring the requirements of Twitter:

“Why do they not want to delete it? Most likely, they don’t want to set a precedent. As soon as they start to cooperate, then they will have to return to this very digital neutrality, because they will have to explain why they blocked something”

How long the restrictive measures will be taken depends on how quickly the administration will comply with the requirements and remove unwanted content.

After the slowdown of Twitter, many users stopped working on state resources: the website of the Kremlin, the government, the State Duma and the Roskomnadzor. The agency said that this isn’t due to the restriction of access to the social network, the reason is the failure of Rostelecom, which occurred as a result of a fire in the OVH information center in Strasbourg.