In the State Duma suggested to equate the media news aggregators – RBC

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In the State Duma amended, which equate news aggregators to the media. In “Yandex” we have already warned that the adoption of the law service can not exist in its current form

In accordance with the amendments to the law “On information, information technologies and information protection”, better known as “the law on bloggers “, which are recorded in the lower house of parliament, the media will be equated news resources, collecting, processing and distributing information, the newspaper” Kommersant reported. ” In the document they are registered as “news aggregators».

Under the law get those sites, traffic exceeding 1 million per day. According to a source in the State Duma, the scope of the project would fall to 30 large companies. “Yandex», Mail.ru, Google, Rambler, «VKontakte», «Sputnik», Facebook, Twitter, etc. The emergence of foreign social networks list is because, that they have tested their own news services in other countries.

The project requires news aggregators “to check the accuracy of the distributed information of public interest”, including the source of which is the media and alleged extrajudicial “measures to curb the dissemination of false information “on the complaint of the authorized bodies. The news aggregator has to be a domestic legal entity, in which foreign participation is possible in no more than 20%.

In addition, the amendments require the company within six months to keep it spread information.

Responsibility (fines from 400 thousand. Rub. For individuals up to 5 mln. For legal entities) aggregator will bear, if not removed the incorrect information on the Roskomnadzor’s request.

One of the project authors, the deputy of the “Fair Russia” Alexey Kazakov explained the appearance of the amendments a desire to fill a legal vacuum. “Aggregators most influential media are superior. But we do not want to create conditions for an uncomfortable work, so the right to appeal in Roskomnadzor give only specialized agencies and non-citizens “, – said the deputy

The head of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, Leonid Levin is not familiar with the details of the proposals. colleagues, but believes regulation in this area “urgent.” “Today, it no longer matters where there was a message, it is important to whom it will apply. Aggregators news media play a major role, it is difficult not to notice, including the regulators, “-. He said

The commentary RBC head of the press-service of” Yandex “Ochir Mandzhikov pointed out that” if the bill suggests to entrust news aggregators on the responsibilities of the media in full service “Yandeks.Novosti” in its current form can not exist. ” He explained that the daily service indexes more than 100 thousand news reports from nearly 7,000 sources. At the same time, “Yandex. News “is not amended, the full text of news aggregator does not publish. “Yandeks.Novosti objectively limited possibilities of verifying the legality and validity of news information prepared by third parties, and can not be held responsible for such information”, – said Mandzhikov

The president of Internet Publishers Association Ivan Zassoursky told “Kommersant. “that the” unpromising pressed aggregation: in social networks it does not get it. ” “We are waiting for other news – not about how to stifle information and new tools development. The development of the Internet is only possible on the basis of social consensus, “- he believes

Earlier the newspaper” Vedomosti “reported that the Ministry of Communications has prepared a bill on state control over the passage of the Internet traffic in Russia.. The paper describes several ways that will help public authorities to monitor the routes Internet traffic on communications networks. The Ministry proposes to establish a system for monitoring the state “use of resources and global addressing global Internet identifiers (DNS and IP-addresses).” This system should also monitor the critical elements of Runet infrastructure, it said in a note. Register RuNet addresses will be created in the framework of this system.