All communication platforms must comply with our laws.
Until the thunder breaks out, the man does not cross himself.
This folk wisdom invariably confirms its relevance in our country and applies to both internal and external actors.
Have we not discussed the shameless behavior of foreign social networks and video hosting in Russia over the past years?
Weren't they blocking Russian media and bloggers, building their algorithms so as to promote exclusively media content that is harmful to our country?
Weren't there any calls from the patriotic public and business to officials to finally initiate the creation of their own digital platforms in order to ensure Russia's information sovereignty?
But, apparently, this is how the laws of the Universe work in our country.
We invariably need a magical push to get things off the ground.
Although here, of course, another popular wisdom is included: we harness slowly, but then we go very quickly.
And in the case of the task finally set by the country's leadership, we have every chance of a swift movement forward with the achievement of all the intended results and even overfulfillment of the plan.
Good Soviet traditions should not be forgotten either.
Apparently, we have come to the very moment when, according to the law of dialectics, quantity turned into quality.
The time has come for decisive action.
Roskomnadzor gave Twitter a month to remove destructive content.
Do not delete - after the slowdown, complete blocking will occur.
Here, of course, the impudence of the representatives of the American company who are unbelievable in our country is shocking.
After all, the stumbling block for today is precisely destructive content, and not politics, as in the case of Trump.
Although it is the example of the American president that clearly shows that lately it is sometimes quite difficult to say where politics ends and destructive begins - and whether it is possible, in principle, to draw a line between these phenomena.
The intermediate results are entertaining: the social network is hiding, it does not get in touch with Roskomnadzor, there are no official answers.
It's clear that the leadership of Twitter is thinking about how to react and what to do.
Apparently, now inside the company there are feverish discussions about what to do and how to be, whether it is possible to back down, how to get out of the situation without loss and at the same time not lose face ...
At the same time, the emerging global trends are already quite understandable: after the incident with Donald Trump in the last US presidential elections, the world took care of its own digital sovereignty and even moved on to the next step - protecting itself.
Take the same Australia, which has rigidly put in place of Google and Facebook with its comrades, despite the serious resistance and hard struggle of these global digital tycoons with the Australian state.
This is an excellent precedent and indicator: today we have moved to the next step in history with the growth and development of IT technologies.
States have realized their strength and danger, it is time to bring national legislation in line with the newly emerging challenges.
It is also clear that this process of legislative settlement of the problem is inevitable today, it has already been launched and is irreversible.
The digital utopia that globalists intended to create through transnational IT corporations is unlikely to come true - in 2020 people understood everything and raised the issue with their governments.
Now is the time to act.
The current situation in this area is a direct threat to the statehood of absolutely any country, including, by the way, the United States itself.
It is urgent to put things in order.
Therefore, today Twitter in Russia has not an easy choice, but a very simple one: either you work in our country according to our rules, or get out of the country.
Nothing personal, as they say, just business.
This is their favorite American saying.
Only now they hardly thought that once the same saying that they used to use in their own interests could be addressed to themselves.
The time has come long ago and there is a need to put things in order in the information field of Russia.
Separate the wheat from the chaff, get rid of information waste and slag and establish clear, strict and clear rules of the game.
Either we will protect our information space, or we will lose everything.
The latter option, clearly, does not suit us.
This means that the moment has come when it is necessary to act decisively.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.