A magistrate court in Moscow fined video hosting TikTok 4 million rubles after refusing to remove content banned in Russia. This was announced on Thursday, December 16, by the press secretary of the Tagansky court Zulfiya Gurinchuk.
“TikTok was found guilty of committing administrative offenses under Part 2 and 4 of Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. A punishment was imposed in the form of administrative fines in the amount of 1 and 3 million rubles, respectively, “RIA Novosti quotes Gurinchuk as saying.
On the same day, the Tagansky District Court fined Twitter 10 million rubles for failure to remove content prohibited in the Russian Federation.
Earlier, on November 25, it became known that the bailiffs opened six more cases against Twitter – on the enforced collection of 19 million rubles in fines.
Earlier, on September 20, the Tagansky court of the capital recognized the appointment of a fine by TikTok as legal due to the failure to remove prohibited content. At the end of May, the magistrate of judicial district No. 422 of the Tagansky district of Moscow found the video hosting guilty of violating Russian law and imposed a fine of 1.5 million rubles.
In April, a Russian court also fined TikTok for not removing banned content. The company was charged with 2.6 million rubles. The reason was the spread of calls on the social network to participate in unauthorized actions at the end of January. Prohibited content was directed at minors. A criminal case was initiated into the posting. However, then the video hosting service ignored the requirement to block content.
Source: IZ
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