“In 2020, this topic (calls to suicide. -

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) on the Internet was less relevant, but such a surge occurred in February.

More than 500 sites this year, and in 2020 more than 5 thousand sites have removed content, or we have restricted access, "- quoted by RIA Novosti Makarenko.

He stated this during the All-Russian conference "Information Security and Children".

According to him, at the end of February, the department revealed more than 400 thousand videos with calls to suicide on the TikTok social network, they were blocked.

Earlier it was reported that Roskomnadzor intends to draw up protocols on an administrative offense against Twitter due to the failure to delete prohibited information.