People are silhouetted as they walk along an avenue past an old Orthodox church in the background in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 2, 2019.
The proposed move sparked protests of several thousand people in Moscow last month. Opponents argue it would allow the state to control the flow of information and enforce blocks on messaging applications which refuse to hand over data. The second reading is when amendments are finalized, and is usually the most important. The bill must pass a third reading and the upper house before being signed into law by President Vladimir Putin.
Russia already requires certain personal information about Russian citizens to be stored on servers in the country. That measure led to the social network LinkedIn being blocked in 2016.
LovToRideMyTrek I do not blame them. There is a reason that China & Russia wall off their internets & it’s called NSA fuckery.
well, your government, of course, does not follow the citizens of its own and foreign countries ! Holy, you are our Americans.😁😁
Got to keep pace with the US.
This is not good for Russia's image.......they are moving Chinwards instead of EU-wards🙅♀️
Just like our own Net Neutrality agenda
That sucks