New regulations for the Internet in Belarus

[Alexei Shulgin <easylife@glas.apc.org>]

May 23, 1996

New regulations for the Internet in Belarus.

The President administration has issued a special instruction, obliging 
all Internet users in the country to register at a police. Everyone who 
has an e-mail account in a state or non-state net division must register 
at [...]
According to official version, these regulations are related to "struggle 
against anti-state information and suppression of anti-people 
provocations".
The registration term is set up in 30 days. The trespassers will be 
seriously punished, though the text of the instruction contains no 
details on it. According to top administration authorities, this new 
instruction will contribute to ?the healthy development of the 
information [...]?

PC World Belarus magazine
#2, 1996


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