Twitter logoMOSCOW, Jan 25Twitter, in accordance with the requirements of the law on the «landing» of foreign IT companies, has registered a personal account on the official website of Roskomnadzor, according to data on the agency's website. including registering a personal account on the official website of Roskomnadzor. In the column of the status of the fulfillment of the requirement on the website of the department, it is indicated that Twitter has complied with it. The social networks are left with placing an electronic form on their information resources, as well as creating a branch, opening a representative office or establishing a Russian legal entity.Twitter has blocked the account of the Supreme Leader of Iran because of the video about TrumpThe law on the «landing» of IT giants applies to companies with a daily audience of more than 500 thousand Russian users, it obliges the owners of such information resources to work in the Russian Federation to create branches, representative offices or establish Russian legal entities that should fully represent the interests of parent companies and be the main channel of interaction between Russian regulators and them. Such obligations will also apply to hosting providers, operators of advertising systems and organizers of the dissemination of information on the Internet. The document provides that in case of violation of the requirements, access to a foreign Internet resource may be partially limited or the resource may be completely blocked. Among the milder measures are informing users about the violation, a ban on the distribution of advertising by a foreign entity or its Internet resource, a ban on the distribution of advertising on the resource itself, limiting money transfers and accepting payments from Russian individuals and legal entities, a ban on search results, collection and cross-border transfer of personal data. In November, Roskomnadzor published a list of 13 foreign Internet companies (owning 22 information resources) that should open representative offices in the Russian Federation: Google (Google, Google Play, YouTube, YouTube Music, Google Chat, Gmail), Apple (iCloud , App Store, Apple Music), Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Twitter, TikTok, Telegram, Zoom, Viber, Spotify, Likeme Pte.Ltd. (Likee), Discord, Pinterest and Twitch.
