A Russian court fines Google another 2 million rubles

　　China News Agency, Moscow, November 8 (Zhang Meng Tianbing) A Moscow district court fined Google 2 million rubles (1 US dollar equals 71 rubles) on the 8th, on the grounds that it refused to delete prohibited information.

So far, Google has been fined 41 million rubles in Russia this year.

　　TASS, RIA Novosti, etc. quoted information from the District Court No. 422 of the Tagansky District of Moscow, saying that the court stated in accordance with Article 13.41 of the "Code of Administrative Violations of the Russian Federation" ("For example, the Russian law provides for the obligation to delete illegal information, The owner of the Internet information resources did not delete the relevant information"), tried the prosecution against Google, and imposed a fine of 2 million rubles on it.

　　The court was originally scheduled to hear two other complaints about Google on the same day, but they were postponed to November 29.

　　Russia’s State Duma Security and Anti-Corruption Committee Chairman Vasily Piskalev said earlier that as of early October, Google had not deleted more than 2,600 materials containing prohibited information, of which 2,500 were from its YouTube video platform. .

　　At the end of September this year, the court imposed a fine of 6.5 million rubles on Google twice, because the company refused to delete prohibited information.

　　On the same day, the well-known social software Telegram was fined 4 million rubles by the court for failing to comply with the relevant regulations of the Russian government and refusing to delete prohibited information.

　　According to "Moscow Communist Youth League" reported on the 8th, previously, the Russian Federal Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media Supervision Bureau filed a lawsuit with the court for the refusal of the two companies to delete prohibited information.

　　According to Russian media reports, since the beginning of this year, relevant Russian courts have imposed a total of 180 million rubles on Google, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and TikTok, including a fine of 32.5 million rubles on Google and 35 million rubles on Telegram.

　　The Russian Federation Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media Supervision Agency previously stated that Internet service providers in Russia must abide by the relevant laws and regulations of the Russian Federation.

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