Russian Internet Restriction Bill

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Russian Internet Restriction Bill
Long title On Amendments to Federal Law On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and the Development and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation
Territorial extent	Russia
Assented to	July 18, 2012
Signed by	Vladimir Putin
Signed	July 28, 2012
Effective	July 30, 2012
Legislative history
Introduced by	State Duma
First reading	July 6, 2012
Second reading	July 11, 2012
Third reading	July 11, 2012
Status: In force

Russian Internet restriction bill (Russian: закон о блокировке экстремистских сайтов; Federal law of Russian Federation no. 139-FZ of 2012-07-28)^[1][2] is a law passed by the Russian State Duma in 2012 which replaced the procedure of shutting down telecom operators by prosecutors' orders with a blacklist of Internet sites containing alleged child pornography, drug-related material, extremist material, and other content illegal in Russia. This blacklist was supposed to be implemented and supervised by a self-regulating NGO of Internet users, but it was never created and this duty was assumed by government agency Roskomnadzor. The bill also introduced several other changes in the law, including liability for providers of telecom services for failing to protect children. Some critics expressed concern that the bill could be used to censor the Internet.^[3] Others noted that it would be expensive and, as written, contained many technical problems that would negatively impact legitimate Internet use.^[4]