Putin Blasts Internet Monsters Who Drive Kids To Suicide

Vladimir Putin discussed with the We Are Together volunteers, how to protect Russian children from manipulation on the Internet, from encouraging suicide, from outright provocations and pornography

And, in fact, the conversation between the President and the volunteers went beyond these issues of greatest importance to society and the future of the country.

At the beginning of the week, parents of metropolitan teenagers received a message from school administrations and parent chats. This is a warning that in one of the social networks children are being called to commit suicide. Mass suicide was scheduled for March 3. The state reacted with lightning speed. Destructive content has been monitored on social networks for several years, and therefore clips with appeals were blocked at the request of Roskomnadzor. So the action was disrupted. However, it is still unknown who its author and what the task was.

The death of Russian teenagers was hardly an end in itself, rather, someone decided to make money on the hype around this topic and on the attention of the media, the Putin said.