Russia is introducing “coercive measures” against foreign IT companies that refuse to remove prohibited content, according to the Telegram channel of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor, RKN) on Friday. fair, August 19th.
As specified in the message, from now on, search engines will be obliged to inform users about “violation of the requirements of Russian law” by TikTok, Telegram, Zoom, Discord and Pinterest, who “do not comply with the procedure of removing prohibited information and the main obligations established by federal law No. 236-FZ “On the Activities of Foreigners on the Internet on the Territory of the Russian Federation”.
The measures adopted will be in place “until foreign companies completely eliminate violations of Russian legislation”.
RKN vs Wikipedia
Earlier, on July 20, Roskomnadzor ordered search engines to label the Wikimedia Foundation, which maintains the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, as violating the law.
In Russia, the Wikimedia Foundation was repeatedly held administratively liable for not removing “illegal information”, the company was fined a total of 5 million rubles. The reason for one of the penalties in the amount of 3 million rubles was the publication of seven articles with “inaccurate information” about military operations in Ukraine. In addition, the court fined Wikimedia 2 million rubles for two articles on the manufacture of explosives – gunpowder.
Source: DW
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