The organization aims to counteract censorship on the Internet and to popularize the ideas of freedom of information and self-regulation.

On 23 December 2022, the Russia's Ministry of Justice added the organisation to the so-called list of "foreign agent".

[5] Rules proposed by the draft law will place the routing of the Network under State control, specifically the governmental body Roskomnadzor.

[6][7] Roskomsvoboda launched the #FreeBogatov campaign in 2017 to support Dmitriy Bogatov who was arrested on April 6, 2017, and accused of calling for extremism and terrorism actions.

Charges were finally dropped as a result of the team of lawyers, including Sarkis Darbinian of Roskomvoboda.