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Quick Look
- Roskomnadzor reported the removal of 89% of calls for minors to participate in unauthorized rallies in support of Alexei Navalny.
- The largest amount of content was removed from TikTok and VKontakte following the department’s requirements.
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Why It Matters
Alexei Navalny was detained on January 17 after returning from Germany. On January 18, the court arrested him for 30 days in the Yves Rocher case.
Almost 90% of messages containing illegal calls for minors to participate in unauthorized protests in support of the arrested oppositionist Alexei Navalny have been removed from social networks. This was reported by the press service of Roskomnadzor.
“Interaction with Internet platforms aimed at removing illegal calls for minors to participate in illegal mass events has made it possible to reduce them to a minimum,” the report says.
The RKN noted that to date, 89% of such messages from the number identified have been deleted. According to the department, such calls were most widely posted on the social networks TikTok and VKontakte. From the first, 93% of messages with calls were deleted, from the second - 87%.
Unauthorized protests in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23 are taking place in many Russian cities. They were organized by associates of the oppositionist, who announced the rallies after Navalny was detained on January 17 at Sheremetyevo airport. He arrived there from Germany, where he was undergoing treatment after poisoning with the chemical warfare agent Novichok. On January 18, the court sent Navalny under arrest for 30 days due to violations of the terms of his probation, which related to a fraud case against the Yves Rocher Vostok company.
As soon as calls for participation in the rallies on January 23 began to appear on the Internet, the Prosecutor General’s Office demanded that access to resources containing such messages be limited. The corresponding instruction was sent to Roskomnadzor, which appealed, in particular, to the administrations of VKontakte and TikTok with a demand to prevent the involvement of minor users in illegal protest mass events. On January 21, the press service of Roskomnadzor stated that they had found calls for minors to go to rallies on TikTok, VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. The regulator threatened social networks with administrative fines, the rules for which came into force on January 10.
Open Questions
- Will fines be applied to social networks?
- How will users react to further censorship?
