By Natali Moss
Roskomnadzor explained that Viber was blocked for Russians due to violations of Russian law: the messenger was allegedly used to recruit citizens, sell drugs and disseminate unlawful information.
"Access to the Viber service is restricted in connection with the violation of the requirements of the Russian legislation to the organizers of dissemination of information, the implementation of which is necessary to prevent the threats of using the messenger for terrorist and extremist purposes, recruiting citizens for their implementation, selling drugs, and in connection with by placing unlawful information, " - said in the department.
The State Duma Member of the State Duma for Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications Anton Nemkin said in a comment to the Russian propaganda TASS agency, which was discharged in the Russian Federation by Viber fines for 1. 8 million rubles, and now the messenger refuses to delete information on the request of Russian special services. In Ukraine, which the Kremlin calls a "special military operation". "The amount of penalties over the last two years has exceeded 1.
8 million rubles, they have not yet been paid. Currently, the messenger continues to ignore Russian legislation and do not delete prohibited information, including information concerning its own," Himkin said. We will remind, on October 23 the Russian media reported that the company NVIDIA blocked the Russians access to updates of video cards drivers. It was reported that the Russians are forced to use VPN to start the updates.
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