Overview
- Sergey Boyarsky, who heads the State Duma information policy committee, said on December 23 that enforcing age thresholds on social networks is impractical in real-world use.
- First deputy committee chair Anton Gorelkin stated a day earlier that parliament is not developing bans on social networks for children and adolescents.
- Gorelkin said media attention to isolated calls for a ban overstates the issue.
- He cautioned that early results from Australia’s under-16 restrictions are unclear and that teens are moving to platforms that do not cooperate with authorities.
- Gorelkin said a forthcoming anti-fraud legislative package will propose 'children’s SIM-cards' to let parents monitor internet traffic and block resources, which he considers a better approach than a blanket prohibition.