Moscow. 20 April. INTERFAX.RU – Twitter asks the appellate court to cancel decisions on imposing administrative fines on the company totaling 8.9 million rubles (over $ 116 thousand) due to the failure to delete content calling for teenagers to go to unauthorized protests at the end of January.
The Tagansky court received appeals against the court rulings on administrative violations of the Twitter company, the press secretary of the court Zulfiya Gurinchuk told Interfax.
According to her, the date of the appointment of the appeal sessions has not yet been set.
On April 2, the magistrate of the Tagansky district of Moscow found Twitter guilty of committing offenses committed on January 23 and 24 and imposed fines on the company in the form of 3.2 million rubles, 3.3 million rubles and 2.4 million rubles.
The company did not agree with the decision and asked the Tagansky court to overturn it, finding Twitter not guilty of an administrative offense.
The press service of Roskomnadzor, commenting on the court's decisions, said that there is a great social responsibility on the popular Internet platforms that hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens visit every day. Social networks that do not restrict access to illegal information expose “the life and health of users, especially children and adolescents, to danger,” the press service emphasized.
On May 4, the magistrates' court will hold court hearings to consider three similar protocols against Facebook and Google LLC.
In relation to companies, protocols have been drawn up under Part 2 of Art. 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (failure by the owner of an information resource on the Internet to delete information or a website if the obligation to delete such information is provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation). The punishment for this offense provides for a fine of 800 thousand to 4 million rubles.
According to the court, the companies are being prosecuted for offenses committed from 22 to 24 January.
On January 23, 31 and February 2, unauthorized rallies took place in the regions of the Russian Federation in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was arrested after returning home on January 17. On February 2, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow replaced his suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case with a term of 3.5 years in prison.
