{"id":771959,"date":"2022-01-29T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/29\/putin-orders-apparent-new-system-for-banning-internet-content\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:34:15","slug":"putin-orders-apparent-new-system-for-banning-internet-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/29\/putin-orders-apparent-new-system-for-banning-internet-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin orders apparent new system for banning internet content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/918617cb-a374-5b6b-94b0-b5f2d49f6615&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x105&#038;resize=2000x1125.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his administration to consider an apparent new system to ban &#8220;toxic&#8221; internet content, although details were not released.<\/p>\n<p>The new system, contained in a list of presidential orders on the Kremlin website, was described as a &#8220;self-regulated register of toxic content&#8221; which would be used &#8220;to protect minors&#8221;. The Kremlin would review it by June 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The order, with Thursday&#8217;s date, was first reported by Russian media on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Putin has hinted at plans for a more sweeping crackdown on online content, blaming the internet for corrupting youth and for fuelling street protests by political opponents branded extremists by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Russia stepped up pressure last year on foreign tech companies, imposing punishments including a nearly $100 million fine against Google for failing to delete banned content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In December, Putin signalled support for a proposal from a member of his human rights council for a new voluntary mechanism to ban toxic content, which Russian online platforms would agree to in return for being treated preferably to foreign platforms. <\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-6638e52abfdb69afb42ddf92921bd901\">Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his administration to consider an apparent new system to ban &#8220;toxic&#8221; internet content, although details were not released. The new system, contained in a list of presidential orders on the Kremlin website, was described as a &#8220;self-regulated register of toxic content&#8221; which would be used &#8220;to protect minors&#8221;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}