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Where did the VPN lead
Failure in the tested program of the State Duma: the promised law "On the Internet Search" is not yet adopted in the final form
But in the Duma, too, something went wrong: on the eve of the “About VPN” amended on the eve, a tricky hidden in the bill is completely different, the deputies adopted yesterday only in the second reading, although they promised immediately and in the third. And even then with 19 votes against and 20 abstained. This obvious failure retains some intrigue: let's see if changes will be made if the Duma for the remaining until the holidays has time to adopt the law in the final edition.
Apparently, the amendment of VPN was proposed by deputies in the order of unauthorized zeal: even the Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov spoke out in the sense that the law requires more intelligible clarifications “for the public”.
Alas, such repressive novels are just mainly designed for slurred and expansion interpretation, which allows judicial practice to constantly overtake the legislator in their zeal.
In the same form in which the Duma baked it today in the second reading, or in some corrected, the amendment, of course, will turn into a law that will enter into force on September 1 or a little later. But the main question is whether the matter will end only with the new article 13.53 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, or is it only the first part of a more expanded scenario.
So far, it is only about fines - for citizens from 3 to 5 thousand rubles. (funny in the present time) for viewing materials of an extremist nature, including using VPN (and how else?). But the answer to the question of what is considered extremist materials, whether the ministers are exhausted by the formal list of the Ministry of Justice or not, will only give judicial practice.
There are quite obvious things: if someone listens in YouTube comments by Alexander Nevzorov* (his family is recognized as an “extremist association), such curiosity will definitely fall under the new article 13.53 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. But there are less obvious cases - go guess what is also included in the list of extremist materials, in which today about 5.5 thousand positions.
An interesting comment on the eve of the consideration of the project was given by the deputy chairman of the Committee of the Duma on Security Ernest Valeev: “We do not provide any new powers to law enforcement agencies” ... such as: What are you panicking? “But the deputy’s face had a somewhat crazy expression.”
Firstly, such powers that need, and so is-both de jure and even more de facto.
Secondly, the dashing of the beginning is the beginning: the Duma does not rust a little later to introduce a similar composition to the Criminal Code, for example, due to its use by administrative prejudice.
The word “knowingly”, which gives rise to known issues when applying, for example, articles about “fakes”, does not promise any difficulties: since someone uses a bypass of blocking, it means that he is accurately looking for something blocked by Roskomnadzor.
The amendment of “about VPN”, in what form, it contradicts part 4 of Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation: “Everyone has the right to freely ( allocated by me. - L. N. ) to search, receive, produce and spread information in any legal way.”
Following this definition backwards, the legislator first significantly limited the right to produce and disseminate information, and now he has reached it to search and receipt.
But this is still a line: no one is allowed to cross without coordination with the Kremlin. Perhaps in the Duma someone will receive a hat-however, not much: the direction is true ...
In the USSR, by the way, no one officially forbidden to listen to the Voice of America ** and Radio Liberty **. They listened to them - who regularly, and who time from curiosity is once. But by denunciation for this they could be fired from work, expelled from the university or close the exit abroad. Something like this will act in the post-Soviet Putin model: no one will check all the phones for the presence of a VPN, but “law enforcement agencies” will pay particular attention to someone, and the future amendment will adjust their tools for this. In the form of an administrative fine - but so far ...