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Moscow Helsinki Group criticizes law on ‘blacklist’ of websites
Moscow Helsinki Group has published a report on the law ‘On the protection of children from information causing harm to their health and development,’ a law commonly referred to as the law on the ‘blacklist’ of websites.
Author of the report Ilnur Sharapov, a lawyer working with Agora Human Rights Association, believes ‘the law limits access for all Internet users to an undefined range of information, including adults and fully capable citizens.’ Sharapov points out: 'Once again, as with many other recent laws, we see that rights and freedoms are being restricted through use of maximally vague and undefined legal norms. The law does not meet the requirement of legal certainty, since it does not allow citizens to predict the consequences of their actions. Moreover, the mechanism for implementing the law is such that even well-meaning owners of websites, against whom the authorities have no complaints, could meet with limitations to their constitutional rights for the sole reason that their website shares an IP address with an Internet resource that has been banned.’