The turnover fines that the Russian court has imposed on Meta Platforms (Facebook) and Google are the result of a constant policy of evasion from the laws of the Russian Federation. This was announced on December 24 by a member of the Federation Council Alexei Pushkov.
According to him, these companies from year to year do not comply with the requirements of Roskomnadzor. The senator is convinced that under such conditions, the introduction of turnover penalties against Meta and Google was inevitable.
“Given the position of the IT giants of partial, incomplete implementation of our laws, constant tug-of-war with the Russian regulator, the so-called turnover fines were just a matter of time. If the companies did not anticipate such a development of events, this means that they did not listen well or did not listen at all, which they were warned about many times, “Pushkov concluded in his Telegram.
Earlier that day, a magistrate court in Moscow fined Meta Platforms for not deleting information prohibited in the Russian Federation. The amount of the turnover fine was almost 2 billion rubles. Also on Friday, the court ruled to fine Google 7.2 billion rubles for refusing to remove content.
The first deputy chairman of the Federation Council committee on constitutional legislation, Irina Rukavishnikova, in an interview with Izvestia, called these measures forced. According to her, previously, IT giants were assigned the usual fixed fines, which the companies paid and continued to violate the laws of Russia.
In the case of turnover fines, the amount of penalties becomes much more serious, so companies must realize the need to work “within the framework of Russian legislation,” the senator emphasized.
Roskomnadzor clarified that Facebook and Instagram did not delete more than 2 thousand materials with prohibited information, this threatens with new turnover fines.
On February 1, a law came into force in Russia, according to which social networks must themselves identify and block prohibited content. In the absence of an opportunity to independently assess the unlawfulness of the content within 24 hours, the administration of the social network must send the data to Roskomnadzor.
Source: IZ
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