Moldovan children's access to negative information on Internet to be restricted

Chisinau, 12 July /MOLDPRES/ - The Internet access services providers will be obliged to provide to users applications on filtering the content with negative impact on children. The parliament adopted a draft law to this end in the first reading today.    

Under the draft, the services providers will introduce in the principal menu of their official webpages a section dedicated to information on Internet security. Thus, according to the document’s authors, parental control over the content watched by children will be established.  

At present, a mobile telephony company already provides to its users access to the service Safe Kids and Moldtelecom – the Safe Web service.  

The draft’s authors consider that the new amendments will offer a competitive advantage to the providers of Internet access services. According to them, in the European Union states, the Internet services providers offer, at a request by the end user, software applications on filtering the Internet content with negative impact on children, which can be downloaded free of charge and set on various devices.   

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)