A Moscow courtroom on Thursday stated it had fined Twitter RUB 3 million (roughly Rs. 30 lakh) for failing to delete content material Russia deems unlawful, the newest in a string of penalties in opposition to overseas know-how companies.
Moscow has elevated strain on Huge Tech this yr in a marketing campaign that critics characterise as an try by the Russian authorities to exert tighter management over the Web, one thing they are saying threatens to stifle particular person and company freedom.
Twitter has denied permitting its platform for use to advertise unlawful behaviour. Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Moscow’s Tagansky District Courtroom stated Twitter had been fined RUB 3 million (roughly Rs. 3 lakh) for failing to delete banned content material.
The courtroom later stated software program growth web site GitHub, which Microsoft bought, had been fined RUB 1 million (roughly Rs. 10 lakh) for a similar offence.
San Francisco-based GitHub didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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