The agency warned that, if Twitter refuses to abide by Russian law, it could be blocked entirely, but voiced hope that the platform would “take a constructive stance” and comply with the demand to remove the banned content. Vadim Subbotin, deputy chief of Roskomnadzor, said in televised remarks that Twitter is the only social platform that has “openly ignored the Russian authorities’ demand to remove the banned content”. Russian authorities have assailed the platforms for failing to remove calls for children to join opposition protests which is against the law in Russia. Only the social network LinkedIn, which wasn’t very popular in Russia, has been banned by the authorities for the failure to store user data in Russia. As the Russian authorities moved Wednesday to slow down Twitter, some Russian government websites suffered outages and access problems.

Source: Irish Independent March 10, 2021 13:41 UTC