The Prosecutor General will allow you to quickly block sites for extremism

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation developed instructions for the operational non-judicial blocking of Internet resources for “calls for riots, extremist activities, participation in mass (public) measures carried out in violation of the established procedure”.

The draft instruction was published on the official portal to post information on the preparation of regulatory legal acts.

The full name of the project: “On the organization of work on consideration of notifications about the distribution in information and telecommunication networks, including the Internet, information containing calls for mass riots, the implementation of extremist activities, participation in mass (public) measures carried out in violation of the established procedure, and the directing of measures to restrict access to information resources, distributing such information. "

As Vedomosti reports, the instructions say that the decision on extrajudicial blocking is made based on the results of an expert study in the field of linguistics, social psychology or religious studies, but “if information materials with obvious signs of extremist have or may have a wide public resonance, the need for operational suppression of their distribution, and an expert investigation is obvious. Required. "

According to the instructions, the General Prosecutor General or, “for operational decision -making”, his deputies in the federal districts, is made by the decision to block the resource with calls for mass riots and unauthorized shares.

For the preparation of the requirements for blocking, up to five days are allocated, but “in cases that are not suffering”, this should be done immediately.