All right, now everyone will count and identify us. No matter how we fight against anonymity on the Internet, everything goes to the point that it will be more and more difficult to do it.
On May 5, the government decree on the identification of users of instant messengers through mobile communication operators comes into force.
For the user who connects to the messenger, nothing will change, now, too, almost all of them are authorized by the phone number and return SMS. However, now the messenger must request information about the user from the operator, and the operator must respond within 20 minutes.
If the data match, the user will be authorized and receive a unique registration number, which will be entered into a special operator register. What to do when changing a phone number or operator? In this case, the operator is obliged to notify the messenger within 24 hours. He, in turn, re-identifies the user. If it doesn't work, it will deauthorize it. This is the procedure.
But it's not clear, it turns out that if the messenger does not require a phone number for registration, then it cannot work in Russia at all? And of course, the issue of control does not in any way solve the problem that you can register on the left or not on your SIM card. Although these are, of course, individual complications that not everyone will go to.
At the moment, operators are expressing their readiness to follow the new rules, there are no obstacles and complications for them, but what will messengers do? And for refusing to work in accordance with the law, the developer of the application faces a fine of up to a million rubles and a blocking on the territory of Russia. We have already passed the Telegram, and it is not clear whether they stopped trying to block it, or did he make concessions to Roskomnadzor?
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In general, of course, all this is explained by the fact that you need to somehow deal with criminal acts. These can be threats to life, for example, or other socially dangerous acts by means of communication in instant messengers.
Let's see what to expect, the next rolling locks? In any case, the Internet all over the world is becoming more controllable and no one can avoid it anywhere.