MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Moscow courtroom fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 3 million roubles ($400,386) on Monday for not deleting content material that it deemed unlawful, a part of a wider dispute between Russia and the U.S. tech large.
Russia in October threatened to effective Google a proportion of its annual Russian turnover for repeatedly failing to delete banned content material on its search engine and YouTube, in Moscow’s strongest transfer but to rein in overseas tech corporations.
Google, which final month mentioned it had paid greater than 32 million roubles in fines, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Russia has issued a number of small fines to U.S. tech firms this yr. State communications regulator Roskomnadzor has slowed down the velocity of Twitter since March and has advised Reuters it is not going to raise the restrictions on cell gadgets till all unlawful content material is eliminated.
($1 = 74.2830 roubles)
(Reporting by Alexander Marrow; Modifying by Mark Trevelyan)
