State Duma deputy proposes jailing citizens whose children use VPN services

Maria Butina, a State Duma deputy from United Russia, has come up with a proposal to punish parents of children who use a VPN service to watch YouTube if it is ever blocked.

If we, adults, are not able to limit our children, to educate, then we do not exist.

Continuing the discussion, Vladimir Solovyov cited the example of students from Yekaterinburg who spoke out against the letter Z. He asked Marina:

You propose to plant their parents?

The deputy commented on the situation a day later in her Telegram channel.

I was surprised to find that the VPN topic has received an incredible amount of attention and speculation about an almost new law in Parliament. Let's dot the i. A law to ban VPNs has not been introduced, considered or planned by me as a legislator. What I said on the air should be considered solely in the context of the entire conversation, which deals with the importance of parents' attention to the upbringing of their children and what is consumed by the younger generation in the information field. I didn't say anything more, I didn't even think about it.