{"id":150300,"date":"2021-05-05T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=194704"},"modified":"2021-05-05T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:28:41","slug":"google-facebook-latest-to-face-fines-in-russia-for-refusing-to-remove-banned-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/05\/google-facebook-latest-to-face-fines-in-russia-for-refusing-to-remove-banned-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Facebook Latest To Face Fines In Russia For Refusing To Remove Banned Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/48e567cf-ef8a-435f-aaa1-dcf71f357891_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Russia has filed protocols against Facebook and Google for what Roskomnadzor, the country&#8217;s communications regulator, says is the social-media networks&#8217; failure to remove banned content.<\/p>\n<p>The official TASS news agency on May 5 quoted a court source as saying five protocols against both Google and Facebook were received by the court, with potential fines amounting to 200 million rubles ($267,000) each.<\/p>\n<p>Another social-media giant, Twitter, has already been handed protocols for similar violations, which could see it fined as much as $320,000, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>The moves are the latest in a major dispute Moscow has with global social-media platforms over content allegedly related to political protests.<\/p>\n<p>Russian critics of the Kremlin routinely use international social networks to get around state control of the media and reach tens of millions of citizens with their anti-government messages.<\/p>\n<p>Imprisoned Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny in January used U.S. social-media networks to organize some of the largest anti-government protests since 2011-12.<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities have gone as far as to threaten to ban social media. Even though they have recently backed away from such threats, Russian regulators have punitively slowed user connections.<\/p>\n<p>No date for the hearing has been set, TASS said. Roskomnadzor, Twitter, and the court did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/05\/05\/google-facebook-latest-to-face-fines-in-russia-for-refusing-to-remove-banned-content\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has filed protocols against Facebook and Google for what Roskomnadzor, the country\u2019s communications regulator, says is the social-media networks\u2019 failure to remove banned content. The official TASS\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150301,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150300\/revisions\/150301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}