Apple and Google fined in Russia for failure to remove prohibited content

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The Tagansky Court of Moscow fined Google 3.8 million rubles. for refusing to remove prohibited content, as reported by a RIA Novosti correspondent from the courtroom. Apple was also fined for a similar reason.

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“To find Google LLC guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (failure by the owner of a website or the owner of an information resource on the Internet to remove information or an Internet page), and impose an administrative penalty in the form of a fine in the amount of 3.8 million rubles,” – reported judge.

Apple was also found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation with a fine of 3.5 million rubles.

Po words TASS correspondent, representatives of the company were present at the meeting. At their request, the meeting was held behind closed doors: they referred to the need for non-disclosure of information about the functioning of the service (user data), but refused to comment.

The companies mentioned were repeatedly fined for failure to comply with Russian legislation. In particular, according to the bankruptcy trustee of Google LLC Valery Talyarovsky, the Russian division paid 16.8 billion rubles. fines for American Google.

Today the court will also consider protocols on violations of Russian legislation by Telegram, Wikimedia and the American AI developer Character. All of them were charged with failure to remove content prohibited in the Russian Federation (Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Punishment for these offenses includes a fine in the amount of 800 thousand to 4 million rubles.

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