The law adopted by the European Parliament, which obliges the online platforms to pay deductions to the authors for links to their content, caused a flurry of criticism on the Web because it will hit Wikipedia, as well as parodies and even memes. The European Parliament adopted the copyright directive, which obliges large Internet platforms like Google or Facebook to share income with the authors in the event of using their works.

The State Duma Committee on Security and Countering Corruption prepared a negative opinion on the draft law, excluding criminal liability for reposts on the Internet. The Committee of the State Duma on Security and Countering Corruption, who was a co -executor under the bill on partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code, recommended rejecting the initiative of the deputies Alexei Zhuravlev and Sergey Shargunov.

Human rights activists and journalists won the European Court of Human Rights, where they filed a lawsuit immediately after publishing by Edward Snowden information about spying for users from a number of governments. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the British program of the mass cyberskit in its current form violates the inviolability of private life and freedom of speech.

In the State Duma, an expert council for the development of the information society under the youth parliament was held, where, instead of liberalization, deputies proposed tightening the legislation on Internet regulation and leave a punishment for reposts in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.