GitHub was fined one million rubles for refusing to delete Smart Voting lists

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined the IT project development service GitHub one million rubles for failing to delete Smart Voting lists. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court.

The portal was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code (failure to delete information).

The protocol was drawn up due to the failure to delete the lists of the Smart Voting project, since “it is used to continue activities.”

Before the State Duma elections in September, Roskomnadzor added the “Smart Voting” domain to the register of prohibited sites and began blocking Navalny’s application. After this, the politician’s supporters began publishing lists of candidates on other platforms, including GitHub , and the regulator demanded that they be blocked as well.

Google and Apple complied with the department’s demands and removed Navalny’s app from stores on the first day of voting. YouTube blocked two videos with lists of recommendations, Google Docs blocked documents with lists of candidates, and Telegram removed the Smart Voting bot.