The Tagansky Court of Moscow on Tuesday, February 15, dismissed Twitter’s complaint about a fine of 3 million rubles for refusing to remove prohibited content. This was reported to Izvestia in the press service of the court.
“By the decision of the Tagansky court of February 15, 2022, the decision of the justice of the peace to which Twitter Inc. (Twitter Inc.) was found guilty of committing an administrative offense and fined 3,000,000 rubles,” the report says.
Thus, the court refused to satisfy the complaint of the company’s lawyer.
To date, the amount of fines of the company has grown to 66 million rubles.
The company was found guilty in the case of an administrative offense under Part 2 of Art. 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Violation of the procedure for restricting access to information, information resources”).
On the same day, the court recognized the imposition of a fine of about 2 billion rubles on Meta, which owns the social networks Facebook and Instagram, as legal.
In January, it became known that Meta challenged the appointment of this turnover fine in Russia. On January 18, Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Development of the Digital Economy, Irina Rukavishnikova, in an interview with Izvestia, noted that the introduction of turnover fines against foreign IT giants was a necessary measure on the part of Russia. She explained that in the past, companies were given the usual fixed penalties, which remained an imperceptible loss in a multi-billion dollar revenue. As a result, IT giants continued to violate the laws of the Russian Federation.
As Ivan Samoylenko, managing partner of the B&C Agency, noted at the time, Meta Platforms (Facebook) is unlikely to be able to reduce the size of the fine imposed in Russia or cancel it. The expert expressed the opinion that the fines would not greatly affect the financial performance of corporations, since 5% of the turnover received in Russia is not much, the maximum fine could be 15%.
On December 16, a world court in Moscow fined Twitter 10 million rubles for failing to remove content banned in Russia.
On February 1, 2021, a law came into force in Russia, according to which social networks must themselves identify and block prohibited content. If they cannot independently assess the illegality of the content, the administration of the social network must send the data to Roskomnadzor within 24 hours
Source: IZ
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