For not having removed information prohibited by Russian law.
A Moscow court has fined Google and Telegram 2 million ($ 28,012) and 4 million rubles ($ 56,000), respectively, for failing to remove information prohibited by Russian law.
It is not the first time that a Russian court has fined Google and Telegram. In the first case, the total amount of penalties amounts to 41 million rubles ($ 574,000) and in the second to 39 million rubles ($ 546,050), according to the TASS agency.
Since February, the Russian telecommunications regulator, Roskomnadzor, has sent administrative protocols against various social networks and messaging applications to Justice for violating Russian law.
The prohibited content that technology companies must remove are those referring to incitement of minors to suicide, child pornography, drug use or calls to participate in unauthorized protests, such as those that took place in support of the Russian opposition leader, Alexéi Navalni, currently in imprisoned for an old criminal case after surviving a poisoning in August last year. (I)
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