Russia Threatens To Ban Facebook, Google And Twitter Unless Companies Turn Over Data

[Shibito]

There are no polar bears in Norway, your avatar makes no sense, so I can't take you seriously.

I bet the true story is about security and it's really US whining that they want everyone elses security in US hands. It wasn't so long ago there was whine about Russia controlling its internet, probably nothing to do with US now n then shut down other countries internet?

I thought internet was supposed to belong to the world, not controlled by the US, silly me.

Acually there is polar bears in Norway, as svalbard is considered a part of Norway and they got plenty of polar bears.

[May90]

They should ban them here also.

Nooo. Ban the rest, but hands off Google! Don't make me use abominations called Bing or Yahoo.

[Ninepenny]

1) He authorized this, it's in the act.
2) Those are the biggest organizations that apply under this act, also ones constantly criticizing Putin. Would be foolish to assume that the act was implemented without a purpose.

In previous years organizations like these were categorized as "foreign agents", and now this.

HRW and Amnesty aren't mentioned anywhere in the law. The news article mentioned them as a provocative "btw" which you happily swallowed and now you're trying to fill the factual gaps in your "Putin is out there to get HRW" theory with naked "logic".

[Charge me Doctor]

That's some very freaking old news, this thing was announced when Snowden gave away info about USA spying on everything. Also, if you are interested, If a foreign legal entity in Russia has no branch or a representative office (on Russian territory), it is not subject to the requirements of the law. Also, there is a project of this law that states that personal data should be stored on territory of any country in "Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data".
So, there is two ways of this shit passing by: if Google, Facebook and other big players agree to rent/build data storage in Russia - then it passes without significant changes. If they refuse - it gets changed to new project.
IMO Russian government just trying to get free moniez from big companies, than actually cares about personal data of its citizens. But again, there are people who happily give away all their personal data to social networks or shady websites that trade playstation accounts with games for cheap, so there is only that much government can do to "protect" their personal data without policing every single key press/touches on their media shit