The planned amendments to the Law on Mass Media are aimed at protecting citizens' rights. This was stated by Pavel Lyogkiy, Deputy Minister of Information of Belarus, during a round table discussion at the editorial office of the newspaper "SB. Belarus Segodnya," as reported by a BELTA correspondent.
The planned amendments to the Law on Mass Media are aimed at protecting citizens' rights. This was stated by Pavel Lyogkiy, Deputy Minister of Information of Belarus, during a round table discussion at the editorial office of the newspaper "SB. Belarus Segodnya," as reported by a BELTA correspondent.
The current Law on Mass Media is already ten years old, and during this time, significant changes have occurred in the information space, emphasized the Deputy Minister. "The media sphere has made a technological leap, the ways in which mass media interact with their audience have changed, and new approaches to working with information have emerged. Current legislation must keep pace with the times. This applies not only to the media industry itself but, above all, to ensuring the protection of our citizens' rights. And the amendments proposed to the legislation are largely aimed at this," he noted.
The most heated discussion during the consideration of amendments to the Law on Mass Media concerns the mandatory identification of users on Internet resources. According to Pavel Lyogkiy, such a measure will not cause a significant outflow of users from the network.