{"id":9402,"date":"2022-07-19T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2022-07-19T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T17:22:36","slug":"russia-fines-google-360-mn-over-ukraine-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/russia-fines-google-360-mn-over-ukraine-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia fines Google $360 mn over Ukraine content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Moscow court has fined Google 21 billion rubles ($360 million) for failing to remove content concerning Russia\u2019s military intervention in Ukraine, the nation\u2019s telecommunications regulator said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Roskomnadzor said the Google-owned video platform YouTube had failed to block &#8220;false information&#8221; on the offensive in Ukraine, &#8220;extremist and terrorist propaganda&#8221; and content &#8220;calling on minors to participate in unauthorised demonstrations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator said that as this was a repeat conviction for Google the fine was based on its annual revenue in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/whatsapp-facebook-instagram-down-twitter-floods-with-hilarious-posts.html\">WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram down: Twitter floods with hilarious posts<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities have been dialling up their pressure on Western social media firms in recent years with repeated fines and threats in a bid to remove criticism from the internet, one of the last bastions of free speech in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Like most of its Western rivals, Google recently quit the Russian market to denounce Russia\u2019s military intervention in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vladimir Zykov, an expert cited by Russian news agency Ria-Novosti, the fine is the largest ever imposed on a Western tech firm by a Russian court.<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities can impose on Google &#8220;as many fines as they wish, they won\u2019t receive the money&#8221; as the firm has pulled out of the country, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Google had no immediate comment concerning the fine.<\/p>\n<p>Roskomnadzor branded the activities of Google and YouTube with the &#8220;terrorist&#8221; label in March, opening up the possibility they would be blocked in Russia, as have Twitter, Instagram and many independent medias following the start of the military operation.<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities have increased the legal penalties for speaking out against the conflict. Those found guilty of spreading &#8220;false information&#8221; about the Russian military face up to 15 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Several people have already been jailed on such charges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Moscow court has fined Google 21 billion rubles ($360 million) for failing to remove content concerning Russia\u2019s military intervention in Ukraine, the nation\u2019s telecommunications regulator said Monday. Roskomnadzor said the Google-owned video platform YouTube had failed to block &#8220;false information&#8221; on the offensive in Ukraine, &#8220;extremist and terrorist propaganda&#8221; and content &#8220;calling on minors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[532,539,312],"class_list":["post-9402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-russia","tag-youtube","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}