If Russia does not comply with government's request for Google · Twitter · Facebook, it will warn you to stop the service

ByEugene Zemlyanskiy

If Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. did not respond to requests such as "Providing data on bloggers with many readers and closing the site", the Russian government warns that the services in Russia will be stopped, the British major newspaperThe GuardianIt reports.

Russia 'will block' Google, Twitter and Facebook if they withhold blogger data | World news | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/russia-will-block-google-twitter-and-facebook-if-they-withhold-blogger-data


The Russian Federal Communications Office warns that Google · Twitter · Facebook is in violation of Russian law and requests information on specific users. If you do not respond, the Russian government can not close down only specific pages created in Google · Twitter · Facebook, so you can not help dealing with the service so that the service itself can not be used in Russia, ... apparently ... When responding to the request of the Russian government, Google · Twitter · Facebook needs to pass data on blogs with more than 3000 readers per day and close down the site including protests etc. not permitted by the Russian government.

Russian President Vladimir Putin decided not to put the Internet under government control in 2014. However, according to the law passed in the same year, Russian prosecutors have the right to block non-authorized protest information without judgment. In addition, government critics seem to express this law as "oppression against freedom of speech".

In response to the recommendation from the Russian side, Facebook says it will respond to user-related data according to international standards, corporate policy, regional laws of legal proceedings. Looking at the data published by Facebook, we can see that in 2014 most of the requests from the Russian government were declined. In contrast, Facebook complies with about 11,1200 requests for requests for data supply of 14,000 from US courts, police and government agencies.


Twitter, like Facebook, responds to the demands of US government agencies as much as 8%, but according to the Twitter report, we have turned down 108 requests from the Russian government in the second half of 2014.


According to a report on how we respond to requests from the government every six months we are building Google does not respond to 134 requests from the Russian government in the second half of 2014. Google is willing to respond to requests only when requests are submitted according to policies and formal legal proceedings.


The Russian government Ampelonsky said, "I understand that Google · Twitter · Facebook is an American company, but I should pay attention to Russia, three companies do not take appropriate measures against Russia In that case, sanctions should be added. "