Bill on fines to apply to YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

MOSCOW, Jul 16 (PRIME) -- A Russian bill on fines for non-deletion of information will apply to YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, according to an explanatory note seen by PRIME on Thursday.

Deputies Alexander Khinshtein and Sergei Boyarsky submitted to the State Duma, the parliament’s lower house, a bill stipulating fines up to 4 million rubles for refusal of websites to delete information. The bill is to fill in the gap in regulation of responsibility for non-fulfilment of the law.

“Hosting providers, website owners, owners of information resources in the Internet must take measures to limit access and/or delete information whose distribution on the territory of the Russian Federation is banned and of other illegally distributed information,” the explanatory note read.

“At the same time, responsibility for non-fulfilment of the requirements of the federal law for the above mentioned individuals and companies is not stipulated, which creates legal uncertainty and conditions provoking violation of the law.”

(70.7998 rubles – U.S. $1)

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