Roskomnadzor threatened Google, Facebook and Twitter with blocking and fines for violating Russian laws
The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, called Google , Facebook and Twitter to order. They were sent official letters demanding an end to the violation of Russian legislation. Otherwise, appropriate measures will be taken against them.
Companies ignored requests from Roskomnadzor to provide statistics on daily attendance of some pages, as well as information to determine the owners of accounts with daily attendance of more than three thousand people. Such behavior violates the new edition of the law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”.
If the violators do not come to their senses, administrative cases will be brought up for them. And the consideration of such cases just doing Roskomnadzor. He can block access to Internet pages containing calls for unlawful actions and exact a fine from companies. The amount of the fine varies from 300 to 500 thousand rubles. If the violation was not committed for the first time, the fine will be 500 thousand rubles.
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According to Vadim Ampelonskiy, a representative of the Ministry, it is after such letters with threats that companies start responding to inquiries.
Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor Maxim Ksenzov on May 6 sent a letter to Google, Facebook and Twitter. He also warned them about the consequences of violations, demanding the removal of “information containing appeals to mass riots, the implementation of extremist activities.” According to the laws of the Russian Federation, Roskomnadzor will be obliged to "restrict access to the information resource on which this information is posted."
“At the same time, restriction of access to prohibited information can be carried out either by the site page index on the Internet or by the domain name and network address of an Internet resource, depending on the technical means available to the operator,” Ksenzov wrote.
Lawyer Anton Bogatov believes that getting companies to pay fines will be difficult. Money can be obtained only from agents who collect money from them for advertising, he explained to Izvestia.
Companies ignored requests from Roskomnadzor to provide statistics on daily attendance of some pages, as well as information to determine the owners of accounts with daily attendance of more than three thousand people. Such behavior violates the new edition of the law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”.
If the violators do not come to their senses, administrative cases will be brought up for them. And the consideration of such cases just doing Roskomnadzor. He can block access to Internet pages containing calls for unlawful actions and exact a fine from companies. The amount of the fine varies from 300 to 500 thousand rubles. If the violation was not committed for the first time, the fine will be 500 thousand rubles.
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According to Vadim Ampelonskiy, a representative of the Ministry, it is after such letters with threats that companies start responding to inquiries.
Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor Maxim Ksenzov on May 6 sent a letter to Google, Facebook and Twitter. He also warned them about the consequences of violations, demanding the removal of “information containing appeals to mass riots, the implementation of extremist activities.” According to the laws of the Russian Federation, Roskomnadzor will be obliged to "restrict access to the information resource on which this information is posted."
“At the same time, restriction of access to prohibited information can be carried out either by the site page index on the Internet or by the domain name and network address of an Internet resource, depending on the technical means available to the operator,” Ksenzov wrote.
Lawyer Anton Bogatov believes that getting companies to pay fines will be difficult. Money can be obtained only from agents who collect money from them for advertising, he explained to Izvestia.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/290728/
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