Putin’s Blogger Law Restricts Internet Freedom and Privacy

May 11th, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

In a quiet attempt to suppress any online dissent, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law this week, which categorizes individual bloggers and writers as media outlets that are now subject to legally register their identity with the Russian government. The new “blogger law” restricts Internet freedom and privacy, but comes with vague guidelines and strict punishments.

According to ITAR-TASS, Moscow’s pro-Kremlin news agency, the law is part of a “package of bills for [the] effective struggle against terrorism and extremism” in which the Russian government will “hold [bloggers] ‘responsible’ for ‘authenticity’ of their reporting…on the government, etc,” the website, Animal New York, reported.

The law applies to bloggers, who write for personal websites or social media networks with more than 3,000 visitors per day. By definition, these bloggers will be responsible for registering their full names with the Russian government, according to the New York Times. But the government is taking it as far as requiring their legal name visible on their website along with displaying a “valid” email address for “legal communication.”

The law also targets Internet service providers, website hosting companies and social media networks, like Facebook and Twitter, under the definition “organizers and disseminators of information.” These social media outlets are required to identify bloggers’ identity to Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being, Rospotrebnadzor, under Putin’s new blogger law.

But some online platforms were ahead of the law. According to Animal New York, the search engine Yandex took down their search-ranking tool and LiveJournal, an online based journal for bloggers, will stop showing daily website visits after 2,500. Since the law applies to bloggers with 3,000 plus website visits per day, this is just one of the loopholes it leaves.

But the punishment that comes with the blogger law, effective August 1, are fines in upwards of $142,000 and “temporary or indefinite shut down of the website,” according to Animal New York.

Little it known about how this law will effect U.S.-based bloggers and Internet-based companies, but fact is, among banning “gay propaganda” and swearing, Putin makes the rules and citizens must abide.

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