The magistrate court district No. 422 of the Tagansky district of Moscow reported that the Telegram messenger could be fined 4 million rubles for refusing to delete prohibited information.
– The court received the protocol of Roskomnadzor, drawn up under Part 2 of Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (refusal of the site owner to delete information, the obligation to delete which is provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation). The date of consideration of this protocol has not yet been set, – the TASS court cites a message.
In July 2021, a court fined Facebook 6 million rubles for refusing to remove prohibited content. On the same day, the court fined Telegram 11 million rubles, also for failure to delete prohibited information. According to the press secretary of the Tagansky District Court Zulfiya Gurinchuk, the social network was fined under three protocols for not removing prohibited content. It was clarified that under one Telegram protocol he was fined 4 million rubles, under two more similar protocols of the social network, a fine of 5 and 2 million rubles was imposed.
