Lawmakers propose tighter grip on world web in Russia

MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. The army of enthusiasts eager “to put the world web in order” keeps growing. Under a bill just submitted to the State Duma by the legislature of North Ossetia, out-of-court decisions to block websites may be applicable to any Internet resource. The legislators in Russia’s constituent republic in the North Caucasus have proposed amendments to the law On Information that lists the prohibited domain names and sites in the Internet to complement it with resources containing extremist content and also material inciting racial, ethnic and religious hatred or hostility towards any social group.

The North Ossetian legislators argue that the existing control mechanisms fail to provide effective countermeasures against such information flows, which, they say “are often tantamount to targeted media intervention.”