Deputy Chairman of the Supreme State Duma for Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications Oleg Matveychev said that extremist and terrorist organizations operate through WhatsApp. There is evidence that in a number of prevented terrorist attacks, terrorists corresponded through this messenger.
WhatsApp has no contact with our existing agreements. They regularly create chats of an extremist nature and recruit people. Therefore, we need to see something with this, and we must, as we know, this service will be ready to cooperate, after no one demands this procedure or serious changes in moderation. We have taken our step, now the ball is in WhatsApp’s court.
— Oleg Matveychev
At the same time, Deputy Chairman Andrei Svintsov said that the difficulties of blocking the messenger are high, and the latest events with the blocking of Viber are such confirmation. If the company begins to comply with Russian legislation, then there will be no restrictions.
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