At the request of the Russian prosecutor's office, Roskomnadzor was not to read Instagram and Facebook in Russia, but to block it in early March.
A Russian court has fined the banned company Meta, which owns social networks Instagram and Facebook, 4 million rubles for refusing to remove banned content in Russia. This was reported by Russia's Interfax news agency.
considers cases in one sitting, under a simplified procedure).
The court recalled that in December, at the request of prosecutors, another Russian court ordered Meta Platforms to restrict access to several Instagram and Facebook posts promoting LGBT people in Russia, including several links to ATS Info.
In addition, Roskomnadzor's claims against the company were related to the non-removal of posts on social networks that offend the Russian government, the president and the flag.
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- How and why Roskomnadzor reads banned Internet resources in Russia, the report does not specify.
- There is also no explanation about the jurisdiction of the Russian court over a foreign company banned in Russia.
- How Russia intends to enforce a Russian court ruling against a foreign company whose activities in Russia are not conducted through Russia's own decision is also not reported.
- It is also unknown what other resources in the world Roskomnadzor monitors for “LGBT propaganda” and “the image of the Russian government, the president and the flag,” and whether anyone else has been fined in a Russian court.
- Whether Roskomnadzor is going to continue to read the banned in the Russian Federation Instagram and Facebook, also it isn't spoken.
We will remind, in March Tver regional Moscow court (Russia) found Meta extremist. The blocking of social networks Instagram and Facebook belonging to her was supposed to “start immediately” .
March 11 The Prosecutor General's Office demanded from Roskomnadzor to block the Instagram social network in the territory of the aggressor country , as “this network distributes publications calling for violent actions 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 “applying censorship to the Russian media.”
