The Federation Council is developing a law on financial sanctions against operators of global social networks for illegal disconnection of users, lustration and censorship.

As you know, fashionable social networks do not have accounts of the country's top leadership.

The only exception is the ex-president and ex-prime minister, today the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, as well as the ex-deputy prime minister and now the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

So far, the owners of global networks have not encroached on Medvedev's accounts, but Dmitry Rogozin's Facebook account has been blocked.

As usual, according to the libel of haters for a value judgment regarding the author of the inglorious "swamp revolution" of 2011-2012, the ex-US ambassador to Russia, comrade.

McFaul.

Blocking dissidents in global networks is not exactly a novel: an entire American president was cut out of the FB and Twitter closed his account for life.

But then their American showdown with Trump, but in the information space of sovereign states, obviously, it is worth acting more carefully.

So for us, active users of these very networks with an open and pro-Russian position (and what else can we have?), Such repression by administrators is not a novelty.

For example, I was banned 30 times, and in a separate year (in my opinion, in 2018), out of 12 months, my official account was closed.

On the slander of haters from neighboring Ukraine and from friendly Armenia and Azerbaijan.

That is, from the hater center of our potential "partners" based in Kiev.

It just so happened.

Of course, I have a duplicate linked account, but now it is also partially affected in rights if the main one is under attack.

They learn to repress.

And we have learned to be more careful: not to use some words and to write between the lines - to bypass the algorithm.

But isn't it censorship?

I remember the Soviet youth and those lines ... It is strange and wild that the American country and the West as a whole, declaring freedom of speech and other freedoms, sink to political censorship.

But this is at first glance so.

If you look closely, social networks are not new media at all, or rather, not only them.

And not only a means of communication between people from all over the world.

It is primarily a global metadata collection machine.

Moreover, those that all billions of users surrender to themselves voluntarily, putting a tick in the user agreement when registering an account.

It would seem: you are doing a powerful, multi-billion dollar business of accumulating and selling metadata, so don't shoot yourself in the foot.

The more sheep, the more wool, right?

But no!

The temptation of virtual power entails an urge for virtual repression.

We have not yet been banned from official, confirmed accounts with a blue checkmark.

But after the bacchanalia of virtual repression in the United States, there has been progress.

The day before yesterday, Dmitry Rogozin (I must say, a user with serious experience) was disconnected for several days for personal criticism of Michael McFaul and his complicity - again - in protest activity in Russia.

Evil tongues in the American new media say that this "specialist on Russia" is returning to the Biden administration, where he will do his usual business.

And the activation of agents in Russia, the activation of the special operation "Berlin Patient", the launch of a protest wave do not coincide with these announcements by accident.

As always, social networks play a special role in such formats.

Already yesterday, in the upper house of the Russian Federal Assembly, a bill was announced on sanctions against operators of global social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube for unreasonable or insufficiently motivated disconnections of users.

Hallelujah!

The head of the Federation Council committee on information policy and interaction with the media, Alexei Pushkov, told the public that his committee is going to submit to the State Duma in the near future a bill on the education of global social networks in our segment of the Internet: “Now we are developing a system of fines, including for Facebook and YouTube, for unjustified blocking of users, ”the senator said.

Well, in many countries of the world they don't stand on ceremony with global social networks.

Somewhere they turn it off, but more and more often impose huge fines.

Of course, this will not completely solve the problem, but still something.

How long can you endure such humiliation?

Moreover, Russia is one of several countries that have their own social networks that are popular in many countries of the world.

Telegram alone is worth it, where, after the introduction of political censorship in the United States, 250 thousand new users per day flow.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.