A court in Moscow fined the Telegram messenger four million rubles under the article on failure to delete “prohibited information” ( Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code). about this writes Mediazona of the with reference to press service the capital's courts and Interfax agency . the
According to Interfax , the reason for the fine was the refusal to delete, at the request of Roskomnadzor, information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation , information “aimed at destabilizing the situation in the country” and containing justification for extremist activities. Also on the list of prohibited publications are publications about the illegal sale and cashing of “Pushkin cards”.
In the summer, Telegram was already fined four million rubles under the same article for failing to delete 32 channels that contained “untrue information about a special military operation and its participants.”
- Over the past few years, large Internet services have regularly faced fines for failing to remove “prohibited information.” So, last year, Tiktok was fined for refusing to remove “LGBT propaganda,” and Twitch was fined for failing to remove an interview with Alexei Arestovich. and others faced pressure Internet Archive , Radio Svoboda , Meta , Wikipedia , Google , GitHub .