Today, December 7, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow officially fined Google an additional 5 million rubles for the search giant’s refusal to comply with legal requirements to remove content prohibited in Russia – information about this appeared on the Telegram channel of Moscow courts of general jurisdiction. The report states that the IT giant was re-fined for refusing to delete data containing calls to extremism, various pornographic materials depicting minors, as well as information with guides on the manufacture of narcotic substances. However, it is worth noting that the maximum fine under this article is 8 million rubles, but Google was fined only 5 million.
The company also received two more fines, but under a different article – it is connected with refusal to delete information if this obligation is spelled out in the legislative base of Russia. Under this article, the maximum fine is 4 million rubles, but Google was fined 2 million twice. Accordingly, the total amount of fines for today amounted to 9 million rubles, but Vadim Subbotin, deputy head of Roskomnadzor, said that in the near future the department plans to collect from the IT giant from 1/20 to 1/10 of the annual turnover in Russia, if the company will continue to violate the legal framework.
For example, a fairly common “culprit” in cases of administrative offenses is the video hosting YouTube, which is owned by Google. Fortunately, Subbotin emphasized that so far there is no talk of slowing down or completely blocking Google in Russia – this is a “last resort.” But, on the other hand, if the giant of the digital world continues to ignore the requirements of Roskomnadzor, then the department will have to take more serious measures to resolve this situation.
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