On Thursday, August 19, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Google 6 million rubles under three administrative protocols for refusing to delete information prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the Moscow city courts of general jurisdiction.
On August 17, the company was ordered to pay 14 million rubles for the same charges.
In May, Roskomnadzor threatened to slow down traffic to Google’s services due to insufficient content filtering.
In August, the court also for the first time fined Google for refusing to localize Russians’ data.
As reported in April, fines for refusing to delete content prohibited in Russia have been imposed on nearly all major social networks, including Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, VKontakte and the messaging app Telegram.
From February 1, a law came into force in Russia obliging social networks to identify and block illegal content themselves. Lawyers told ForkLog more about the new rules and their consequences:
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