{"id":1391,"date":"2021-11-24T18:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/russia-demands-us-tech-firms-set-up-operations-on-its-soil-or-face-restrictions-bans-thehill-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2021-11-24T18:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:25:48","slug":"russia-demands-us-tech-firms-set-up-operations-on-its-soil-or-face-restrictions-bans-thehill-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/russia-demands-us-tech-firms-set-up-operations-on-its-soil-or-face-restrictions-bans-thehill-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia demands US tech firms set up operations on its soil or face restrictions, bans | TheHill &#8211; The Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>       &copy; 1998-2021 Nexstar Media Inc.<br \/>       All Rights Reserved     <br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russia\u2019s government has demanded that\u00a013 foreign\u00a0tech companies\u00a0set up offices in the country\u00a0or potentially face restrictions and bans, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/europe\/moscow-says-13-foreign-tech-firms-must-be-represented-russian-soil-by-2022-2021-11-23\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reuters reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The demand was issued Monday by Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency responsible for regulating the country&rsquo;s mass media, after a new Russian law took effect in July\u00a0and mandated that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social media platforms with more than 500,000 daily users must set up\u00a0a physical presence\u00a0in the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Companies will also be required to open accounts on Roskomnadzor&rsquo;s website and create an interface\u00a0through which Russian users can provide feedback, Reuters reported.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok\u00a0are\u00a0among\u00a0the\u00a0tech entities\u00a0addressed in the demand. All\u00a0were\u00a0fined earlier this year\u00a0by\u00a0the Russian government for failing to delete content\u00a0that it determined to be illegal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The demand\u00a0stated that companies could face restrictions \u2014 or bans \u2014 in marketing, collecting data and transferring funds if they don&rsquo;t comply with\u00a0the law by the end of 2021.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new demands come as Russia has been building its own domestic tech sector, offering an alternative to U.S.-based companies.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Russian government has also\u00a0proposed other potential policies to promote its own country&rsquo;s companies over their competition, including taxes on foreign digital services, tax cuts for domestic firms and requirements that devices provide Russian software to users when purchased in the country, according to Reuters.<\/span><br \/>\u00ab\u00a0Foreign entities are required to limit access to information that violates Russian legislation,\u00a0\u00bb Roskomnadzor said in a statement, per Reuters.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill-v4.disqus.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fpolicy%2Ftechnology%2F582850-russia-demands-us-tech-firms-to-set-up-operations-on-its-soil-or-face\">View the discussion thread.<\/a><br \/>The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax<br \/>The contents of this site are &copy; 1998 &#8211; 2021  Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/582850-russia-demands-us-tech-firms-to-set-up-operations-on-its-soil-or-face\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&copy; 1998-2021 Nexstar Media Inc. All Rights Reserved Russia\u2019s government has demanded that\u00a013 foreign\u00a0tech companies\u00a0set up offices in the country\u00a0or potentially face restrictions and bans, Reuters reported.\u00a0The demand was issued Monday by Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency responsible for regulating the country&rsquo;s mass media, after a new Russian law took effect in July\u00a0and mandated that\u00a0social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}