Starting September 1, the Russian Federation will introduce fines for advertising on banned online platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, whose activities have been declared “extremist” in Russia.
According to Ukrinform, this was reported on Telegram by the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
For placing advertisements on these and other “undesirable platforms,” even in the form of free integrations or reposts, Russian citizens will have to pay the state up to 500,000 rubles (about 6,000 USD).
Such penalties, introduced by the Russian authorities under the slogan of “digital sovereignty,” are in fact yet another step toward the complete digital and informational isolation of the population.
The Kremlin is gradually cutting Russians off from all sources of information except state propaganda.
Meanwhile, the alternatives imposed by the Russian authorities to popular global services—for example, the “sovereign messenger Max”—are being used to establish total digital control over the population. “By systematically tightening the screws, the Kremlin is turning Russia into a ‘digital concentration camp,’ where the state will punish citizens even for the potential possibility of accessing information from independent sources,” the CCD stated.
As reported by Ukrinform, on March 4, 2022, Roskomnadzor blocked the Facebook social network on the territory of the Russian Federation. Moscow stressed that this decision was a response to the blocking of Russian media in the West.
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