The state has declared a war of anonymity on the Internet
Online media will connect to the Unified User Identification and Authentication System (ESIA)
The Institute for Internet Development (IRI, Chairman of the Board - German Klimenko) has developed a draft of a “road map” for optimizing the work of the media and social networks on the Internet. Draft plan to submit to Putin, and after the May holidays - to discuss in the State Duma.
The main essence of the reform is to establish a single, reliable mechanism for the identification and authentication of Internet users through the portal of public services and social networks. Currently, identification occurs in various ways, so the user's identity is not always possible to establish. This raises a lot of problems, including anonymous comments on the sites.
26 million Russians are registered in the ESIA. Most identified by passport. Confirm their identity in the ESIA citizens can in more than 13 thousand points throughout the country.
Reliable identification will, in particular, remove responsibility for comments on articles from online media. Instead of the editors, the commentators themselves will now be punished for the violation.
The trick of the plan is that the online media editorial staff and site administrators can implement a user identification mechanism through the ESIA voluntarily . If they do not do it voluntarily, they themselves will be criminalized for anonymous comments.
“We want to enable media readers to log in through any social network or public services portal,” explained the author of the initiative, the head of the Internet Plus Media competence center of the IRI Alexander Mikheev. “This concerns only comments and should be on a voluntary basis for the media.”
To implement the system, a number of changes to the legislation will have to be made, including revising the ruling of the 2010 plenum of the Supreme Court, according to which registered online media are responsible for the comments of readers on the forum.
“We have to go to ensure that user verification is ubiquitous,” said Vadim Dengin, deputy head of the Duma’s information policy committee. - In everyday life there is a passport, and a person shows it almost everywhere, and the Internet should be the same. There is nothing to fear. This is the right step. ”