Providers opposed the preliminary filtration of content

The Internet providers and media companies opposed the Ideas for preliminary filtration of content on the network to protect children from harmful information proposed by the safe Internet league. It is reported by Kommersant.

Chairman of the Media Communication Union Sergei Petrov asked letters to the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov and the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Leonid Levin. The documents noted that the proposal of LBI is ineffective. Semantic filtration algorithms do not work with the video, but only with the text. Currently, there are no hardware and software complexes that allow you to filter encrypted traffic.

In addition, the ISS believes that the implementation of the concept of LBI will lead to an increase in operating costs. The cost of Internet access will increase, and investments in the development of networks will fall. Small providers will not be able to afford expensive equipment and will be forced to leave the market.

At the same time, according to the ISS, not only Internet providers, but also the organizers of the distribution of information should be responsible for the distributed information. For this definition, Internet sites or bloggers with a daily audience of more than 3 thousand unique visitors fall under this definition.

“It is the organizer of the dissemination of information that should be responsible for its content, since he can be either a person creating information (site) and editing it or a person who receives the rights to storage, search and distribution (site, Internet cinema, social network, search engine, hosting provider,” the document says.

In August, the executive director of the organization Denis Davydov proposed to introduce two -level filtration of the Internet content in Russia - through lists of prohibited sites of Roskomnadzor and a system of intellectual recognition of dangerous content. According to him, League experts prepared the technical justification of the project. The real -time system will determine the contents of the page requested by the user. She herself evaluates the content and determines the category to which the information belongs. Pages with prohibited information will be blocked automatically.

In early December, it was reported that the State Duma intends to adopt a law on the mandatory filtering of the Internet content at the providers level . "The promotion of the amendments clearly shows a tough administrative pressure, including from the assistant to President Igor Schegolev. In his interests, they are an early adoption, if possible before the New Year," the source said.