Sarym-Zakiyeva's amendments did not pass. Some of them.

Work on the cyberbullying bill that provoked so much emotions, seems to enter  the final straight.

As it was reported the initial noble idea of the bill was to protect children from kiberbulling. But it implied so many restrictions that freedom of expression was put at threat. The authors of the bill, MPs Aidos Sarym and Dinara Zakieva, gave the authorized body (the ministry of information and public development - MIPD) the right  to restrict or suspend the work of websites, social networks and instant messengers at its own discretion access .

The Senate (the upper chamber of the Parliament), where the bill was sent after unanimous approval by the Mazhilis (the lower chamber of the Parliament), limited this arbitrariness. It proposed,  to create an expert commission to define cyberbullying, and to delete cyberbullying content only.

On April 20, the Mazhilis adopted those amendments. At the same time, Mazhilis speaker Yerlan Koshanov bowed and scraped before Aidos Sarym and Dinara Zakieva, who made hard efforts to tighten control over the public Internet.

The rules that the owners of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and other popular resources must appoint their representatives and within 24 hours delete content that MIPD recognized  as cyberbullying have been preserved.

Now a new and, most likely,  unanimous vote for the amended bill is up next.