In the Chita region, the prosecutor's office demanded that the telecom operator restrict access to a number of sites that, according to experts, are extremist

At the end of November 2007, the prosecutor of the Uletovsky district of the Chita region demanded that the director of Sibirtelecom OJSC (one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Siberian Federal District) restrict access to a number of Internet sites, the content of which, in the opinion of the prosecutor's office, contributes to inciting social, racial , national and religious hatred.

The basis for the prosecutor's response was the results of checking a number of sites that revealed the facts of posting materials containing public calls to carry out extremist activities, commit terrorist acts, incite hatred and enmity. The prosecutor's office does not disclose the addresses of the sites.

According to the conclusion of the philological and linguistic examination of the materials of these sites, "they are aimed at forming a negative image of the Russian people and attribute exclusively hostile actions to the Russians, imperial ambitions towards other peoples, create a distorted idea of ​​the role of the Russian people in the historical process" .

By providing data transfer services to these sites, Sibirtelecom OJSC, according to the prosecutor's office, "promotes the dissemination of information contained on them, aimed at violating the integrity of the Russian Federation, undermining the security of the state, inciting social, racial and religious hatred" .

According to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Chita region, this is the first precedent in the region of the prosecutor's response to restricting access to information on the Internet.

Comm. Unfortunately, we do not know which Internet resources appear in the resolution. The prosecutor's office of the Chita region told us that they deliberately do not publish a list of resources so as not to stimulate interest in them. However, they clarified that the submission appeals to existing court decisions on the recognition of materials and resources as extremist. In particular, to the decision to ban four sites by one of the Novosibirsk courts.

Sources

• The prosecutor's office insists in the interests of countering extremism on restricting access to certain Internet sites // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Chita region. 2007. November 28.