Moscow courts imposed several fines on Google and Telegram companies due to failure to fulfill the obligation to self-monitor and remove prohibited information. This was reported by TASS and Interfax.
Thus, the magistrate judge of the Magistrate Court District No. 422 in the Tagansky District fined Google 4 million rubles. The company was found guilty of failure to comply with an order to identify and delete information at the request of executive authorities ( Article 19.7.10-4 of the Administrative Code ).
“According to the case materials, Google did not comply with Roskomnadzor’s orders to monitor YouTube and did not remove videos containing content confusingly similar to unreliable socially significant information about SVO,” Interfax writes.
Under the same article, on December 5, the magistrate of precinct No. 422 fined the Telegram social network 4 million rubles. It is unknown what exactly was the reason for drawing up a report on the company.
In addition, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow imposed fines on both companies under the article on failure to take measures to limit access to prohibited information ( Part 2 of Article 13.50 of the Administrative Code ). So, on December 6, Google was fined 800 thousand rubles, and Telegram - on December 8 - one million rubles. What exactly was the reason for drawing up protocols under this article is unknown.
According to Interfax, by the beginning of December Roskomnadzor had drawn up 14 protocols under Part 2 of Article 13.50 of the Administrative Code. Among the companies to which the department has complaints are: Telegram, Google, Twitch, Pinterest, TikTok and Likee. Some of them have already been fined from 750 to 900 thousand rubles.
Article 19.7.10-4 of the Administrative Code was introduced on July 31, 2023 and implies fines for citizens in the amount of 100 to 200 thousand rubles, for officials - from 500 to 800 thousand rubles, for legal entities - from four to six million rubles. On the same day, Article 13.50 of the Code of Administrative Offenses was introduced. Part 2 of this article implies fines for civilians from 50 to one hundred thousand rubles, for officials - from 200 to 400 thousand rubles, for legal entities - from 800 thousand to 4 million rubles. Both articles oblige social networks and websites to monitor and delete certain information or limit access to it.
- 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. Internet Archive , Radio Svoboda , Meta , Wikipedia , Google , GitHub and others faced pressure.
- At the end of November, Telegram was fined four million rubles due to its 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.