Ministry of Information Blocks 40 Websites, 11 of them Extremist

“Out of them, 18 infor­ma­tion­al resources have been blocked for dis­tri­b­u­tion of infor­ma­tion aimed to sell ille­gal drugs, 2 – for tabooed vocab­u­lary, 5 – for inap­pro­pri­ate adver­tis­ing of med­i­cines, 1 – for pro­pa­gan­da of child pornog­ra­phy, 1 – for dis­tri­b­u­tion of infor­ma­tion that can inflict dam­age to nation­al inter­ests,” says the reply. Access to four of the resources have been renewed. There had been no warn­ings issued to own­ers of the web­sites. 

“The grounds for issu­ing a writ­ten warn­ing are envis­aged by art. 49, point 1 of the Law on Mass Media…, and the grounds to restrict access to mass media prod­ucts are envis­aged by art. 51, point 1. The list is exhaus­tive,” says the Min­is­ter. 

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