In the Russian State Duma, a bill was introduced, implying a ban on the use of technologies that allow access to information resources blocked in Russia, writes Regnum. It is also proposed to impose a ban on issuing links to such resources.
For violation of the law, fines of 5 thousand. Russian rubles for citizens, 50 thousand. Rubles for officials and from 500 thousand. Up to 700 thousand. Rubles for legal entities.
According to the document, it is proposed to establish a ban "to ensure the use of information and telecommunications networks, information systems and computer programs on the territory of the Russian Federation for access to information resources, including sites and (or) pages of sites on the Internet, access to which In the territory of the Russian Federation is limited ".
According to the adviser to the President of Russia on Internet development Herman Klimenko, the bill submitted to the State Duma does not mean a complete ban of VPN services and anonymizers like Tor,. RU". He explained that the authors of the initiative intend to oblige services to block access to sites banned on the territory of Russia.