The head of the HRC proposed to block Facebook during the operation in Ukraine – RBC

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Fadeev devoted a separate block of his article to pacifism and criticism of those who oppose the war. “There is a lot of talk on the topic “no war”, “war is the worst”, “we will not allow war”. War is terrible, of course. But our world consists not only of flowers. The world of such speakers is the world of supermarkets, coffee houses, friendship marathons, cats, hearts, smoothies,” writes the head of the HRC.

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According to Fadeev, the deployment of NATO forces “near our borders” is a preparation for war. “Sooner or later it would start. It’s worse than now,” the head of the HRC said, adding that “the huge problem is that part of the Russian intelligentsia does not understand the tragedy of the global geopolitical situation.”

Early on the morning of February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a “special military operation” in Ukraine, the goals of which are to protect the population, “denazification” and “demilitarization.” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called the incident a war, mobilization and martial law were declared in the country. On February 28, representatives of Russia and Ukraine held talks on the territory of Belarus, following which they outlined topics for further meetings.

The Russian authorities have already introduced measures against Facebook. On February 25, the day after the start of the military operation in Ukraine, Roskomnadzor partially restricted access to this social network. Limiting means slowing down traffic.

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As Roskomnadzor explained, the social network had previously limited the official accounts of the Russian media: the Zvezda TV channel, RIA Novosti, Lenta.ru and Gazeta.ru. The request to explain the reason and remove the restrictions at Meta (owns Facebook) was ignored, the department said. As a result, the Prosecutor General’s Office, in agreement with the Foreign Ministry, recognized the social network as being involved in the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Meta, in turn, said that the Russian authorities asked “to stop independent fact-checking and labeling of content” published by Russian media. The company refused to do so. “As a result, they announced that they will limit the operation of our services,” said its vice president, Nick Clegg. He added that Russians use the Meta apps to “express themselves and prepare for action” and that the corporation wants citizens to be able to continue using these platforms.

On February 26, Facebook banned Russian state media from running and monetizing ads. Clegg explained that such measures were taken in response to “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

President Vladimir Putin has stressed that Russia does not intend to occupy Ukraine. He called the special operation in the country a necessary measure, noting that its goal is to protect the population from “genocide”, as well as “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine.

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