The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Google more than 7.2 billion rubles for repeated failure to remove prohibited information.
Roskomnadzor prepared an administrative protocol against Google over its YouTube service. The agency said that the video hosting ‘systematically fails to comply with the requirements for removing materials containing information prohibited in the Russian Federation.’
This is the first case in Russia where a court has imposed a turnover-based penalty on an IT company.
Meta (formerly Facebook) received a fine of almost 2 billion rubles for similar charges, sources report by media.
Earlier in August, a Moscow court fined Google 20 million rubles for refusing to remove content prohibited in Russia.
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