Duma will offer to remove from social networks responsible for the content of users – RBC

In the upper house of parliament offered to bring social networking properties from the application of the law on bloggers, reports Tass. If the amendments are adopted, the owners of these resources do not have to be responsible for the content posted by users.

At the moment, the responsibility for compliance with the law lies with the owners of social networks. Senators Konstantin Dobrynin and Vadim Tulips offer to shift the responsibility to the owners of the profiles, the amendments will be submitted to the State Duma on Friday.

The law “On information, information technologies and information protection” is planned to add several new concepts: “social network “” profile / account / blog “,” self-blog “,” blogger “and” visited blogger. ” Refinements allow “eliminate ambiguous interpretation of certain provisions of the current version of the law,” say the authors of the amendments.

The rules of the Act relate exclusively to “visited bloggers” who have more than three thousand readers a day. According to current legislation, the authors of these blogs are obliged to register with the Roskomnadzor.