{"id":275539,"date":"2025-07-19T19:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275539\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:53:17","slug":"kremlin-spokesman-calls-for-more-detailed-explanations-of-ban-on-extremist-internet-searches-meduza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275539\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin spokesman calls for \u2018more detailed explanations\u2019 of ban on \u2018extremist\u2019 Internet searches \u2014 Meduza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">On\u00a0July 17, Russia\u2019s\u00a0State Duma adopted the <a href=\"http:\/\/duma.gov.ru\/news\/61824\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second reading<\/a> of\u00a0controversial legislation that would make it\u00a0illegal to\u00a0search for or\u00a0access \u201cextremist materials\u201d on\u00a0the Internet, but public concerns may delay passage of\u00a0the third and final reading. Following criticism from Russia Today editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and Safe Internet League head Ekaterina Mizulina, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/youlistenedmayak\/37992\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> reporters on\u00a0Thursday that lawmakers should provide more detailed explanations of\u00a0their plan to\u00a0impose fines on\u00a0\u201cextremist\u201d Internet searches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">\u201cI\u00a0am\u00a0not familiar with this initiative from the deputies. I\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0know the details, so\u00a0I\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0comment. The only thing is\u00a0that yes, judging by\u00a0yesterday and today, this topic has immediately generated considerable public interest. It\u00a0seems they just need to\u00a0provide more detailed explanations of\u00a0this initiative to\u00a0address people\u2019s\u00a0questions,\u201d said Peskov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">A\u00a0day earlier, Margarita Simonyan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/margaritasimonyan\/15049\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticized<\/a> the bill, warning that it\u00a0would restrict her staff\u2019s\u00a0ability to\u00a0\u201cinvestigate and stigmatize\u201d the activities of\u00a0groups declared \u201cextremist\u201d by\u00a0the Russian authorities, such as\u00a0the Anti-Corruption Foundation, created by\u00a0Alexey Navalny. Ekaterina Mizulina has raised <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/ekaterina_mizulina\/15809\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">similar concerns<\/a>, saying that a\u00a0ban on\u00a0searching for \u201cextremist\u201d materials would prevent her organization from monitoring the Internet and create legal problems for anyone trying to\u00a0report unlawful Internet content.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"related-rich-block\" class=\"RelatedRichBlock-module_root__-SEe7 RelatedRichBlock-module_isCard__wkMw-\" href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/cards\/the-crime-of-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The crime of\u00a0reading A new Russian law will ban not just posting \u2018extremist\u2019 content but simply searching for and accessing it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On\u00a0July 17, Russia\u2019s\u00a0State Duma adopted the second reading of\u00a0controversial legislation that would make it\u00a0illegal to\u00a0search for or\u00a0access \u201cextremist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[3082,53,16,15,7888,7883,7886,7875,7868,7880,7870,7881,7887,7876,7864,7871,7865,7873,7874,7866,7869,7867,7885,7879,7872,7884,7882,7878,7877],"class_list":{"0":"post-275539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-7888","13":"tag-7883","14":"tag-7886","15":"tag-7875","16":"tag-7868","17":"tag-7880","18":"tag-7870","19":"tag-7881","20":"tag-7887","21":"tag-7876","22":"tag-7864","23":"tag-7871","24":"tag-7865","25":"tag-7873","26":"tag-7874","27":"tag-7866","28":"tag-7869","29":"tag-7867","30":"tag-7885","31":"tag-7879","32":"tag-7872","33":"tag-7884","34":"tag-7882","35":"tag-7878","36":"tag-7877"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114881652519973407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}