![]() “I’m sure technically the government will not be successful they’ve tried before with Telegram,” a messaging service launched by Russian-born entrepreneur Pavel Durov and a competitor to Facebook.Īs the number of people protesting against the government in person has dwindled in recent months, censorship of social media platforms has become the main battlefield for Russians’ hearts and minds. “I use VPN,” says Vyacheslav Gimadi, head of legal department at the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) founded by Navalny. Not everyone is concerned about restricting freedom of information in Russia. companies in favor of Russian services like Yandex, Russia’s dominant search engine. If implemented, these new measures could hurt Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and other U.S. That could reduce the revenue foreign tech companies earn in the Russian market, according to Russian business paper Kommersant. Additionally, it plans to introduce legislation in April that would require domestic apps to come preloaded on foreign mobile devices sold in the country. In addition to targeting social media, the Russian government introduced legislation last month authorizing new fines for companies that fail to follow censorship rules or restrict Russian media. The regulator also held a “preventive conversation” with Paramount Pictures, the distributors of the TV show South Park, about “scenes that facilitate creation of social norms in society and intimate relations between adults and underage individuals.” ![]() The Instagram account was live as of Tuesday. And on March 15, the government asked Instagram to reinstate the account of Crimea-24, a television channel dedicated to covering Crimea. Earlier this week, Russian authorities also told Google to remove age and other limitations on the film Rzhev: 500 Days Under Fire, a documentary about a World War II battle that is restricted by YouTube to viewers over 18. ![]()
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