“VKontakte” promised to block the Public about suicide – Arguments and Facts

Moscow, May 17 -. AIF-Moscow

The Social Network “VKontakte” promised to block all the groups that contain prohibited information about suicide, Interfax reports with reference to the Federal Service

at the request of the social network department itself will block suicidal Public and place in closed rooms for emergency psychological assistance phone pages for teens.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, about 30% of links containing information on how to commit suicide It leads users to social networks. At the same time in the “VKontakte” for more than three thousand of links and pages with such information.

Earlier on Monday, the media published an article, which tells about a schoolgirl who committed suicide. Her parents found out that the girl was in closed groups in “VKontakte”, where the unknown motivated children to commit suicide. It has been reported that over the past six months, scores of lives brought 130 children who were in the same closed groups in the social network.

A spokesman for Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky said that the agency fulfills all set out in article materials in conjunction with the Rospotrebnadzor, and promised that the first results on these facts will in the coming days.