The request comes from Latvian MEP Rihards Kols, who said he wants the Parliament to block access to RT, Sputnik, VGTRK, ANO TV Novosti and others across all Parliament devices and networks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a matter of information security, institutional coherence, and the credibility of the Parliament\u2019s position against Russian disinformation,\u201d he told POLITICO, adding that \u201cthe Latvian national media regulator has raised the issue directly with [Parliament] President [Roberta] Metsola.\u201d<\/p>\n
If approved, the measure would mirror restrictions already imposed on the social media giant TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is headquartered in Beijing, over network security concerns. The TikTok app was blocked on the Parliament\u2019s Wi-Fi and devices in March 2023.<\/p>\n
Several political group leaders expressed concerns that the ban could set a precedent for websites being banned \u201cfor reasons other than security,\u201d and cited the technical and legal challenges of enforcing such restrictions, according to the meeting notes.<\/p>\n
Metsola is \u201cinvestigating\u201d the possibility and studying which other measures are applied in other EU institutions, according to the notes.<\/p>\n
Kols said \u201ca solution is expected to be proposed in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Parliament\u2019s press service said in a statement the matter will be discussed again in a future leaders\u2019 meeting. \u201cThe European Parliament takes the protection of its users and their data seriously and implement measures to protect these and its infrastructures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The request comes from Latvian MEP Rihards Kols, who said he wants the Parliament to block access to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2814,13071,2452,11584,332,811,182,657,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-535461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-data","9":"tag-disinformation","10":"tag-media","11":"tag-network-security","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-security","14":"tag-social-media","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115457544855588016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535461","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=535461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}