The State Duma Committee on Information Policy recommended that deputies pass a bill banning trash streams and similar content. It is expected that the document will amend the law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection’ The law will oblige distributors of photo and video materials depicting illegal acts committed with cruelty in a special register, with subsequent prosecution.
It will also oblige social networks to monitor and identify such materials. In November 2023, the head of the State Dma Committee on Youth Policy, Artyom Metelev, said that bills on administrative and criminal liability for trash streams were supported by the government.