How Russia wages war on Google, Facebook and Twitter
This week a court in Russia fined Google and Facebook and then Twitter for failing to delete content that Moscow considers illegal
Russian beats for the US giants Google, Facebook and Twitter.
A Russian court on Thursday said it had imposed two fines on Twitter totaling 7 million rubles ($ 95,310) for failing to delete content Moscow considers illegal.
On Tuesday, a Russian court announced that it had fined tech giants Google and Facebook for the same reason.
Russia has already placed a punitive slowdown on the US social network Twitter for not deleting banned content, part of a push by Moscow to rein in Western tech companies and strengthen what it calls its "sovereignty" on the Internet. TikTok also received a fine for similar offenses this year.
But the fines come amid a larger confrontation between Moscow and Google. Russia's communications supervisor warned on Monday that Moscow could possibly slow down the company's traffic in the country if it fails to eliminate content deemed illegal.
On Wednesday, however, the government ordered Facebook and Twitter to archive all data of Russian users within the country by 1 July, under penalty of a fine.
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ENNESIMA FINE A TWITTER
This is not the first time that Twitter has faced sanctions in Russia for not deleting content considered illegal.
In April, a court had issued three separate fines against Twitter totaling 8.9 million rubles, again on charges of failing to delete banned content.
THE FINE A BIG G
Google was ordered to pay a total of 6 million rubles (about $ 81,000) for three different crimes, a Moscow court said Tuesday.
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Facebook instead received a fine of 26 million rubles.
THE ACCUSATIONS OF RUSSIA TO GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK
The allegations concern posts Russia said encouraged minors to participate in unauthorized protests in January. That is when people across the country took to the streets to support Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he was arrested.
THE "THREAT" OF ROSKOMNADZOR
But for the Mountain View giant, this fine is just one of many tugs from Moscow. Another Monday came from a spokesperson for the Federal Service for the Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor).
The agency noted that the volume of banned content and the time the company fails to eliminate it is severe enough for it to "take steps to slow down the traffic of Google's services in Russia."
“Google does not fully fulfill its obligation to exclude links to Internet resources with information prohibited in our country from search results in Russia. On average, 20% to 30% of links to banned content in Russia are not removed from search results. This includes websites of terrorist and extremist organizations, websites with pornographic images of minors, as well as online drug stores, ”the official told Tass.
"After Twitter removed 91% of the banned information at Roskomnadzor's request, Google was the worst in terms of the amount of illegal, undeleted content that directly harms Russian users," the official added.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/come-la-russia-fa-la-guerra-a-google-facebook-e-twitter/ on Thu, 27 May 2021 09:36:37 +0000.