Putin urged to minimize the state’s influence on filtering of the information content
The President has offered “to think together about the creation of such mechanisms.”
BAKAL SPIT /Crimea/, August 20. /TASS/. The creative community should take action to filter television and Internet content, the influence of the state here should be minimized. This was stated by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at a meeting with participants of the all-Russian educational forum “Tavrida”, commenting on the proposal of one of the participants talks about the introduction of a filter for TV Internet content, to get rid of the domination of aggressive and criminal information, which negatively affects the younger generation.
According to Putin, “it should be forbidden that which is forbidden in the law, everywhere — online, on television and in other media.” “But everything else can be accomplished only one way — filtering with the help of the creative community. If the community itself will develop a system of moral and ethical filters, it would be right below if not eliminate, then minimize, but it is better to exclude the influence of this process on the part of the state,” Putin said.
The President has offered “to think together about the creation of such mechanisms.” He added that he is in contact with the leaders of our major TV channels, “the people who somehow affect what, say, the Internet is”.
I can say that they themselves understand and are trying this situation to change for the better. But in today’s world it is hard to do — flow filter, there are concerns that this filtering take ideological character, and society will be deprived of the opportunity to open reliable direct information.Vladimir Putin
Putin stressed that “in the Internet age it is hard to do — to filter out everything, but some countries have made such attempts”.