{"id":10751,"date":"2019-03-19T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=10751"},"modified":"2024-01-29T03:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T11:19:25","slug":"russia-doubles-down-on-censorship-with-new-fake-news-and-internet-insults-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-doubles-down-on-censorship-with-new-fake-news-and-internet-insults-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia doubles down on censorship with new &#8216;fake news&#8217; and &#8216;internet insults&#8217; law"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p>The Russian government has passed a new censorship law that allows it to target individuals and websites for such nondescript crimes as spreading \u201cfake news\u201d and \u201cdisrespecting\u201d state symbols of figures \u2013 including Vladimir Putin. Specifically, Russia will be able to punish any person or site that \u201cexhibits blatant disrespect for the society, government, official government symbols, constitution or governmental bodies of Russia.\u201d The laws passed after two months in the Russian legislature without any of the changes requested by privacy and civil liberties activists in Russia. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2019\/03\/18\/putin-signs-fake-news-internet-insults-bills-into-law-a64850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moscow Times<\/a>, the first law introduces a fine of up to 1.5 million rubles (~$22,900) for users and sites that spread \u201cfake news.\u201d The second law introduces fines up to 300,000 rubles (~$4,580) on top of jail time up to fifteen days for disrespecting Putin or other state symbols.<\/p>\n<h2>Disrespectful content to be censored, sharers punished<\/h2>\n<p>Who decides what counts as disrespectful? In the current setup: The Russian government of course. That\u2019s a slippery slope to let the government decide. After all, is a news article that calls Russia\u2019s new law a bad idea considered disrespectful? Russian journalists and public figures have signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/jadevacations.com\/2019\/03\/12\/ob-ustanovlenii-v-strane-rezhima-pryamoj-tsenzury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition<\/a> opposing the new laws and condemning them as \u201cdirect censorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Internet censorship is at an all time high and Internet freedom is at an all time low in Russia. Encrypted messaging systems like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russias-telegram-ban-is-a-fiasco-and-its-rendering-millions-of-ip-addresses-inaccessible\/\">Telegram<\/a> are being targeted, Russian datacenters attempt to seize your data without due process, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/07\/russia-says-nyet-continues-linkedin-block-after-it-refuses-to-store-data-in-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outside companies<\/a> are forced to locate their servers on Russian soil, or be blocked, Though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/thousands-march-moscow-russia-support-internet-freedom-protest-vpn-ban\/\">activists march<\/a> on Moscow to protest this, the Roskomnadzor\u2019s blacklist still grows while the internet\u2019s freedom still shrinks.<\/p>\n<h2>Censorship on the rise around the world<\/h2>\n<p>This is censorship plain and simple. While it may not seem as blatant as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/isps-in-au-and-nz-start-censoring-the-internet-without-legal-precedent\/\">ISPs in Australia and New Zealand<\/a> straight up blocking access to some websites, Russia\u2019s newest law is actually a step above that. The reason being that Russia already has a long list of blacklisted websites which is mained by the Roskomnadzor, Russia\u2019s internet censorship agency. Any site that the Russian government doesn\u2019t like, it can simply blacklist for Russian internet users \u2013 rendering them unable to visit the blacklisted site unless they use a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-vpn-ban-doesnt-forbid-personal-business-use-vpns\/\">VPN \u2013 which is still allowed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Featured image from www.kremlin.ru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government has passed a new censorship law that allows it to target individuals and websites for such nondescript crimes as spreading \u201cfake news\u201d and \u201cdisrespecting\u201d state symbols of figures \u2013 including Vladimir Putin. Specifically, Russia will be able to punish any person or site that \u201cexhibits blatant disrespect for the society, government, official &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-doubles-down-on-censorship-with-new-fake-news-and-internet-insults-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Russia doubles down on censorship with new &#8216;fake news&#8217; and &#8216;internet insults&#8217; law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1945,1,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-news","category-governments"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia doubles down on censorship with new &#039;fake news&#039; 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