Russia fines Twitter. Last month, the Russian Federal Information Technologies and Mass Communication Supervisory Authority made a request to Twitter. Twitter refused to remove some of the post-request content. Russia slowed Twitter down. Now, a court in Moscow fined Twitter 3.2 million rubles for administrative violation.
The case of the Russian Federal Information Technology and Mass Communication Supervisory Authority is at the Taganskiy court. Content prohibited by Russia was still available on Twitter. concluding that the company did not comply with the legislation, the court fined Twitter 3.2 million rubles (approximately 42 thousand dollars).
Roskomnadzor made a decision on March 10th. Suicide, obscene and drug-promoting content was still available on Twitter. Russia slowed Twitter’s speed by 50 percent on mobile devices.
RUSSIA FINES TWITTER! ANNOUNCED THAT WILL BE SLOWED
Roskomnadzor social media application announced that the speed of Twitter will slow down as of March 10.
Russian Federal Information Technologies and Mass Communication Supervisory Authority made a statement. Since 2017, the removal of suicide, obscene and drug-promoting content has been requested. There are over 28 thousand requests for this.
According to the latest news, more than 3 thousand of these contents were still on Twitter. “To protect Russian citizens. Thus Twitter’s pace slowed as of March 10 to force compliance with the law. “