Tuesday, May 12, 2015

“Kommersant”: ISPs opposed content filtering on the network – BBC

Internet service providers and media companies opposed the proposed League of Safe Internet the idea of ​​pre-filtering of content on the network to protect children from harmful information, the newspaper «Kommersant» .

This It said in a letter to President Mediakommunikatsionnogo Union (ISS) Sergei Petrov, sent last week, the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov and the head of the Duma committee on information policy Leonid Levin.

According to the STI in Russia should be introduced mandatory pre-semantic content filtering In Internet. The user can disable the “clean internet” and gain access to all resources, if confirm their age and sign a separate agreement with the provider. STI concept created by businessman Konstantin Malofeev with the support of the former Minister of Communications, presidential aide Igor Shchegolev discussed in a working group under the leadership of the State Duma deputy Yelena Mizulina last year.

The idea STI ineffective, according to the ISS: the semantic algorithms filtration not work with video, and text-only. In addition, there is no hardware-software complexes, allowing to filter encrypted traffic. Implementation of the concept of STI, according to ISS, will lead to higher costs of operators increase the cost of Internet access and lower investments in development of networks.

The ISS also consider that information to be disseminated must meet not only the ISPs, but the organizers of the dissemination of information. Under this definition of Internet sites or bloggers with a daily audience of more than 3 thousand. Unique visitors.

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