The Kremlin stated Tuesday it hopes Moscow won’t be compelled to block Western tech giants within the nation however confused that the businesses had to abide by Russian legislation. Russian authorities have in latest months ramped up stress on overseas social media platforms, notably these internet hosting content material supporting jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
“No one wants a full ban and it would be silly to advocate for one,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated in an interview with Argumenty i Fakty weekly.
“But it’s necessary to force the companies to follow our rules.
“We’d like to hope that it will not come to that and that methods to resolve the battle will probably be discovered,” he said in the interview published Tuesday.
Russia’s state communications watchdog earlier this month began disrupting Twitter services in Russia, saying the US platform failed to comply with its requests to delete content.
Authorities said the content was related to child pornography, drug use, and calls for minors to commit suicide.
Twitter has said it does not support “any illegal behaviour” and is “deeply involved by elevated makes an attempt to block and throttle on-line public dialog”.
Russia in 2019 passed a law on the development of “sovereign web” aimed at isolating the country’s internet from the worldwide web, a move activists said would tighten government control of cyberspace and stifle free speech.
“If you do not need to settle for our guidelines you can not work right here,” Peskov told the weekly. “Not a single self-respecting nation will enable an organization to impose its personal phrases. That’s not attainable.”
The Kremlin spokesman also said that Putin had no media accounts and did not want to waste time keeping any.
“He doesn’t want it,” Peskov said.
“He has relations and family members who present and inform him issues.”
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