Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan

Gmail, Facebook and Twitter are going to be switched off in school computers in Russia

23 April 2014, Wednesday

Implementing the internet filtering requirements prepared by Russian Education and Science Ministry and Russian Communications Ministry will make one fourth of the Russian-language sites unavailable from schools. Gmail, Facebook and Twitter are some of the to-be blocked web resources. The conclusion was made by experts who analysed the document signed by the two ministers.The two ministries issued recommendations on restricting access from school computers to information harming the health and development of children and incompliant with the educational purposes. Both sites promoting drugs and violence as well as ones providing research paper databases, dating services and other information that is not illegal or banned for children but incompliant with the purposes of education are planned to be made unavailable.

A system more advanced than the Roskomnadzor blacklists is expected to be built. Access is both to be restricted based on the lists of harmful sites and web pages prepared beforehand and on the analysis of a particular web page a school student tries to connect to. First, the content analysis system will check the requested page. If the system decides its content is inappropriate, access to the page will be blocked and its address forwarded to experts for analysis. If hazard is confirmed, the page will be added to the list of network resources incompliant with education purposes.

Education Ministry says the content access restriction system could be put into commercial operation on 1 September 2014 at the earliest.

By the materials of IA "Tatar-Inform"

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