Safe Internet League
The Safe Internet League (Russian: Лига безопасного интернета) is a state-sponsored nonprofit Russian Internet censorship organization.[1]
It was registered on January 26, 2011 under the full name АССОЦИАЦИЯ УЧАСТНИКОВ РЫНКА ИНТЕРНЕТ-ИНДУСТРИИ "ЛИГА БЕЗОПАСНОГО ИНТЕРНЕТА". As of 2025[update], its director is Ekaterina Mizulina (recorded in this capacity on April 10, 2018).[2] It was created with the support of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, and the State Duma Committee on Family, Women, and Children.[3] Until 2015[4] the board of directors was headed by Russian media mogul Konstantin Malofeev in the capacity of managing partner of Marshall Capital Partners investment fund.[5][6] On April 20, 2015 this position was taken by Denis Davydov, former executive director.[4]
On January 29, 2024 the head of the organization Ekaterina Mizulina was sanctioned by the European Union for "enforcing censorship practices against Internet content creators and artists in favour of the Russian government and its policies" and saying that she is "responsible for serious and systematic abuses of freedom of opinion and expression". By the same decision organization itself was also sanctioned because it "allows the Russian government to reinforce censorship practices by silencing Internet content creators and artists, who make content not consistent with the official line of the Russian government"... "Using the threat of imposing punitive or economic measures, Safe Internet League is trying to make Internet content creators and artists either to delete anti-government content or to create content in favour of the Russian government and praising its policies."[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ Franoise Dauc, Benjamin Loveluck, Bella Ostromooukhova, Anna Zaytseva, "From Citizen Investigators to Cyber Patrols: Volunteer Internet Regulation in Russia", Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 11(3), 46–70, doi:10.25285/2078-1938-2019-11-3-46-70
- ^ Предоставление сведений из ЕГРЮЛ/ЕГРИП в электронном виде (search request for Лига безопасного интернета)
- ^ О Лиге
- ^ a b Малофеев ушел с поста председателя правления Лиги безопасного интернета
- ^ Дружинники выходят в интернет. В России создается «Лига безопасного интернета gazeta.ru, February 4, 2011
- ^ Лига безопасного интернета a webpage of Благотворительный фонд Святителя Василия Великого
- ^ COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2024/418 of 29 January 2024
- ^ EU Sanctions Russia’s Chief Denunciator Mizulina Over Free Speech Abuses, The Moscow Times, January 29, 2024