Personal Privacy and Sovereignty in Social Networks
... as the editor-in-chief of the media and Roskomnadzor. On the contrary, the new version of the federal law "On measures to influence persons involved in violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms, rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation" prohibits network owners from blocking user accounts under the threat of reprisals against the network as a whole. The formulations used in the laws create a paradoxical picture. For example, a user writes on Twitter that someone is a bastard because he lives in Chertanovo district and works at the Zhilishchnik state budgetary institution. If the owner of Twitter does not restrict access to such an account, he will break the information law, and if he does,...