Roskomnadzor to introduce online filtering tool

Roskomnadzor, the federal executive body of Russia dealing with censorship in media and telecommunications, is going to launch a new online filtering and blocking tool to deal with illegal content on the Internet. The launch is likely to take place this year itself.

Alexander Zharov, the head of the department, made this announcement at a meeting with Russian members of the parliament. The technical details of the new filtering tool were not revealed.

“We are currently working on a completely new system for filtering and blocking illegal content,” said Zharov. – I believe that it will be launched within a year, and the situation will change dramatically. Now we are blocking only the information that has been already published on the Internet.”

Roskomnadzor is Russia’s telecom watchdog which has already blocked over 90 thousand gambling domains in 2018, which is almost 30 thousand more than in 2017. The institution has published its first gambling blacklist 4 years ago, however still it fails to provide effective firewall.

Source: TASS