Russia to high quality Google as much as 20% of annual turnover for failing to delete banned content material

Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor stated it might search to high quality American tech large Google for repeatedly failing to take away content material deemed unlawful as quickly as this week. The high quality will quantity to 5-20% of Google’s Russian turnover.

The watchdog highlighted Google had didn’t pay $ 458,100 (32.5 million rubles) in penalties levied earlier this 12 months. The newest high quality could also be as a lot as $ 240 million, marking a major enhance from the earlier penalty.

Earlier this month, Roskomnadzor introduced plans to ask a courtroom to impose a turnover high quality on social media agency Fb, citing laws signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in December 2020. Fb was accused of permitting content material glamorizing drug use, baby pornography, and extremism.

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“An identical case shall be put collectively in October towards Google,” the regulator stated in emailed feedback to Reuters, noting that the California-based company additionally owned video-hosting web site YouTube.

Final 12 months, Google’s turnover in Russia totaled 85.5 billion rubles ($ 1.2 billion), in keeping with the SPARK enterprise database, cited by the media. Thus, a 5-20% high quality would quantity to between four.three and 17.1 billion rubles ($ 60 million-240 million).

Google is presently coping with a courtroom ruling demanding the agency unblock the YouTube account of a sanctioned Russian businessman or face a compounding high quality on its total turnover that will double each week, and drive Google out of enterprise in Russia inside months.

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