The Anti-virus Times

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The Internet has unlimited potential. It gives everyone the opportunity to express themselves and convey their thoughts and ideas to millions of people. This opportunity to express oneself before the whole world is surely one of humankind’s greatest achievements.

Many people have, at the very least, pages on social networking websites; some even have blogs and, judging by the number of subscribers they have, they are quite good at it.

The law :

The owner of a site and (or) site page on the Internet that hosts publicly available information and is accessed by more than three thousand Internet users daily (hereinafter, the blogger) must make sure that the posted information, including information posted on their page or site by other users, complies with current Russian legislation.

In other words, you are responsible not only for what you publish yourself, but also for what your visitors write. You are also responsible for your reposts of someone else's content.

A repost is a copy of an original post (text) on any social media, mass media site or personal website — with or without attribution to the actual author. That is, it is a message from YOU that contains a quotation from someone else's text.

In Russia, if one's site or page contains information that violates Russian law, it does not matter who posted it—it is still punishable by law. And the fact that the information is available to a wide audience is considered to be an aggravating circumstance.