{"id":389424,"date":"2021-04-05T14:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=389424"},"modified":"2021-04-05T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:59:30","slug":"russia-slows-twitter-wont-block-platform-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-slows-twitter-wont-block-platform-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Slows Twitter, Won\u2019t Block Platform Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-slows-twitter-wont-block-platform-yet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=389424&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-301.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, officials in Russia said that they will keep slowing down Twitter until the middle of next month, but they will not entirely block it due to the fact that the platform is removing content they have deemed harmful.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian government and Twitter have been at odds for the past few months as Russia accused Twitter of not taking down pornographic, harmful, or illegal content.<\/p>\n<p>On March 10, Russia slowed down access to the social media platform, alleging that it was trying to protect Russian citizens because of the content that was not being removed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/russia-slows-down-access-to-twitter\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"41\">\n<p><em>On Wednesday, Russia slowed down Twitter access in an alleged attempt to protect its citizens, stating that the social media tool has not removed content that is illegal, pornographic, or harmful. The move raised concerns among many who see it as the latest limitation on freedom of expression by the Kremlin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The telecommunications regulator for the country, Roskomnadzor, said in a statement that it would be limiting how fast the social media network loaded for users in the country, and The New York Times confirmed that images and videos did take longer than usual to load.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Roskomnadzor accused Twitter of keeping content on its site that encourages minors to commit suicide, includes child pornography, and also contains facts about using drugs. The regulator claimed that it has repeatedly petitioned Twitter to take down illegal content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWith the aim of protecting Russian citizens and forcing the internet service to follow the law on the territory of the Russian Federation, centralized reactive measures have been taken against Twitter starting March 10, 2021 \u2014 specifically, the initial throttling of the service\u2019s speeds, in accordance with the regulations,\u201d the statement said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf the internet service Twitter continues to ignore the demands of the law, measures against it will continue in accordance with the regulations, up to and including blocking it,\u201d it added.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter has responded to the allegations made by the Russian government by drawing attention to its zero tolerance policy for child sexual exploitation, the promotion of suicide, and selling of drugs, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/media-social-media-suicides-pornography-russia-fd42e715623ff9ed81a05fda16feb579\">Associated Press<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, Roskomnadzor said that it had made the decision not to block Twitter, \u201ctaking into account the decision made by Twitter for the first time to change the principles and speed of its own moderation service in Russia, and the removal of a significant part of the prohibited content,\u201d the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator said that the social media platform has removed about 1,900 of 3,100 posts that have information about suicide and drugs, and include child pornography. According to Roskomnadzor, Twitter has also sped up its process of deleting content that is banned. At this time, the platform removes the forbidden content in 81 hours. Laws in Russia, however, demand that banned content be removed within 24 hours of social media being informed about it.<\/p>\n<p>Roskomnadzor plans to keep slowing down Twitter until May 15, providing it with \u201cadditional time to remove all prohibited content \u2026 and bring its operations into full compliance\u201d with Russian law, per the AP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/russia-slows-down-access-to-twitter\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported that the social media site has been used by Putin\u2019s critics as a way to gather and protest against the Kremlin, which controls the television media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Vladimir Putin\u2019s main critic and opposition leader Alexei A. Navalny used social media earlier this year to speak out against Putin, and Navalny\u2019s followers have used the platforms in order to organize protests,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials have only entirely forbidden one social media outlet \u2014<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>LinkedIn \u2014<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cfor the failure to store its user data in Russia,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/media-social-media-suicides-pornography-russia-fd42e715623ff9ed81a05fda16feb579\">AP<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, officials in Russia said that they will keep slowing down Twitter until the middle of next month, but they will not entirely block it due to the fact &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311685,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-301.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Russia Slows Twitter, Won\u2019t Block Platform Yet","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-301.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Russia Slows Twitter, Won\u2019t Block Platform Yet","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}