At the same time, the social network was blocked by Roskomnadzor, from which no compensation is expected.
The Council of Bloggers at the Council of the Federation of Russia is winking at < Meta 's $ 1 billion in compensation in favor of Instagram users who lost income due to the blocking of the social network, UNIAN reports.
Bloggers also believe that the company should publicly apologize to Russian citizens for the blockade Instagram. Bloggers do not mention or do not even know that the social network in Russia is blocked by Roskomnadzor.
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The founder of the Russian Bloggers Council Valeria Rytvina said that the compensation is used to support individuals and legal entities who suffered losses due to “illegal actions of Meta Platforms Inc”. It is not specified what the illegality of the actions is.
In case of non-payment of compensation, bloggers threaten to go to court.
Meta has not yet commented on this statement.
It will be recalled that after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Meta temporarily allowed Facebook and Instagram users from some countries to publish calls for violence against the Russian military, as well as calls for the deaths of Russian President Vladimir Putin and self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Permission to publish the death toll was later revoked. A Russian court has declared Meta an extremist organization, and its social networks have banned it. At the same time, they clarified that this ban on Facebook and Instagram does not limit the actions of individuals and legal entities in their use.
The Prosecutor General's Office demanded that Roskomnadzor block the Instagram social network in the aggressor country , because “This network distributes publications calling for acts of violence against Russian citizens, including servicemen.” The blocking of Instagram in Russia started on March 14.
Facebook has been blocked in the country since March 4 for “censoring Russian media.”
