The largest organizations for the protection of the rights of Internet users Access Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Net Freedoms Project called on IT companies to protect the Russian Internet from censorship in the run-up to and during elections. The open letter was published on the Access Now website.
An open letter addressed to the heads of Apple, Facebook, Google, Yandex, Cloudflare, as well as Russian mobile operators and Internet providers, was signed by more than 20 public organizations from the USA, Azerbaijan, Somalia, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, France and Russia.
The authors of the open letter called on companies to publicly speak out against pressure on the Internet, to combat attempts by the authorities to impose censorship and blocking (including in the courts), as well as inform the public about all such initiatives and cooperate with public organizations in attempts to resist them.
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