The court fined Twitter 19 million rubles

The court fined Twitter 19 million rubles for not removing prohibited content - Roskomnadzor said that the social network still had not removed about 9% of such content.

The Tagansky Court of Moscow today considered nine protocols against Twitter. Now, in total, taking into account previous fines, the social network must pay almost 28 million rubles. While this is a record amount - for comparison, Facebook was fined a total of 16 million rubles, Google - 6 million rubles, calculated . Kommersant

At the same time, such amounts of fines for companies may not be limiting - according to the new law, in case of repeated violation of the rules of Roskomnadzor (concerning the failure to delete information with calls for extremism, child pornography, as well as methods, methods for the development, manufacture and use of drugs), the company may be fined up to one-fifth of the company's total annual revenue.

In addition to large fines, companies may face traffic slowdowns, as has already happened with Twitter. A few days ago, the RKN threatened to slow down Google traffic in Russia due to insufficient filtering of prohibited content - the agency complained that the service did not remove 20-30% of such links. Previously, similar threats were made against Facebook and Youtube.

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