Google pays fines to Russia over banned content
The brand of Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, is mirrored in a laptop computer display exhibiting Google begin web page, on this image illustration taken Might 27, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Illustration/File Picture
MOSCOW, Oct 25 (Reuters) – U.S. tech large Google has paid Russia greater than 32 million roubles ($455,079) in fines for failing to delete content material Moscow deems unlawful, the corporate and a Russian lawmaker mentioned after talks on Monday.
Russia final week mentioned it could search to advantageous the U.S. tech large a proportion of its annual Russian turnover later this month for repeatedly failing to delete banned content material on its search engine and YouTube, in Moscow’s strongest transfer but to rein in overseas tech corporations.
Vasily Piskarev, a lawmaker who heads a parliamentary fee to analyze overseas interference in Russia, on Monday mentioned Google’s representatives had expressed a need to have interaction in dialogue and the corporate had paid greater than 32 million roubles in excellent fines, information companies reported.
Marco Pancini, YouTube director for interacting with state authorities in EMEA, mentioned in a weblog publish that Google had paid all enforced fines on time. These stood at 32.5 million roubles for this yr, communications regulator Roskomnadzor mentioned final week.
Roskomnadzor on Monday mentioned it has the technical functionality to decelerate the pace of YouTube, Interfax reported, however that administrative measures are presently adequate.
In 2020, Google’s compliance with requests to delete content material was 96.2%, Pancini mentioned, and within the first half of this yr, it eliminated over 489,000 movies, however Russia mentioned an excessive amount of banned content material nonetheless remained accessible.
Piskarev mentioned final week that this included baby pornography. Russia has ordered different overseas tech corporations to delete posts selling drug abuse and harmful pastimes, details about selfmade weapons and explosives, in addition to ones by teams it designates as extremist or terrorist.
Round 2,650 items of unlawful content material on Google’s web sources remained undeleted as of the beginning of October, the RIA information company cited Piskarev as saying.
“Work has been carried out, as we see, nonetheless it’s nonetheless very removed from preferrred,” he mentioned.
Piskarev mentioned Pancini had cited technical difficulties for Google’s failure to take away all of the banned content material.
($1 = 70.3175 roubles)
Reporting by Alexander Marrow, modifying by Mark Trevelyan
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