Russia will have its own specialized information system that will block illegal content online.
According to IA "TASS", a bill authorizing and describing the operation and application of such a system has already been developed by the Prosecutor General's Office in conjunction with the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia and Roskomnadzor.
Currently, the Prosecutor General's Office, together with the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia and Roskomnadzor, is working diligently to improve the mechanism for countering the spread of illegal content on the Internet. Through joint efforts, a bill has been developed that regulates the prompt decision to block malicious sites using a specialized information system.
According to the agency, in 2023 (from January 1 to December 25), the Prosecutor General's Office sent over two thousand requests to Roskomnadzor for extrajudicial restriction of access to information on the Internet. In 2022, there were 1,699 such requests for the year.
In total, over the past year, Roskomnadzor added about 529 thousand materials and resources to the register of prohibited information. They were either blocked or deleted. Most often, they contained fake information, including fakes about the SMO, as well as propaganda of drugs, extremist ideas, or gambling. Compared to 2022, the number of sites entered in the register of prohibited information decreased by 10%.
Tracking illegal content in Russia as part of the implementation of the law on the sovereign Runet is assisted by the automated Internet security system (ASBI) with the support of technical means to counter threats. ASBI covers almost 100% of the traffic of telecom operators, and processes information at a speed of more than 100 Tbit/sec.
In addition, social networks and hosting providers themselves are actively involved in tracking and blocking illegal content on their platforms.
