The new media law will spare bloggers

Amendments to the Law ... The initiator of the bill, Senator Vladimir Slutsker said that under the sites ' collecting more than 1,000 visits a day ...

Although Slutsker, and assured that the amendments will not affect ' blogs, dating sites and other public services, including search engines ' privacy bloggers will still depend on the concept of ' online media ' prescribed by law. After all, he says the senator need to amend it so that in its present edition is no clear definition of electronic publishing, e- newspapers.

If now, according to Slutsker, can be equated to the media ' in general, all sites where any material posted on a regular basis ', the new version of the measure did not differ from the media, the media should be exactly the threshold of attendance. But in this case blogs will be formally separated from the media, he did not specify.

Raging on this ground is not only soothes the bloggers Slutsker. A former marketer ' Soup ' Ivan Zasursky popularly explained to readers ' Gazette ' that even if the registration would require a blogger, nothing wrong with that. ... And if the site is not registered as mass media, it does not close ...

Recall that a judge forced the site to register ' New Focus ' as the media has a different opinion. She referred to ' the principle of voluntary registration ' and pointed to the fact that the project ... And the chief editor ' confiscated ' the site had to fulfill this requirement.

If the criterion of ' Internet traffic will SMI'shnosti, the rules will be easy to get around, said Zasursky: ' Who will take attendance, especially if the Internet users will be removed from their page counts and ratings? .

By the way, many users of LiveJournal continues to overlook the fact that they have something just might sleep in peace, regardless of the vagaries of Russian legislation. Although the service and came under the control of a Russian company controlled by it's still an American LiveJournal, Inc. in accordance with the laws of the United States.