Parliament approves bill fining YouTube, social nets for banned info

MOSCOW, Dec 25 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federation Council, the parliament’s upper house, approved on Friday a bill on heavy fines for video hosting YouTube and social networks Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for non-deletion of banned information with calls to extremism and propaganda of drugs or children’s pornography.

Under the bill, the owner of a website or an information resource as well as a hosting provider will be fined from 50,000 to 100,000 rubles for people, 200,000 to 400,000 rubles for company officials, and 800,000 to 4 million rubles for companies for not deleting banned information.

Fines for repeated violation will be doubled to 100,000 to 200,000 rubles for people, 500,000 to 800,000 rubles for company officials, and 1/20 to 1/10 of total revenue “received from the sale of all goods (works, services) in a calendar year preceding the year when the administrative offence was detected or for part of the calendar year preceding the date of violation”. The fine is to be at least 4 million rubles.

To become law, the bill is to be signed by the president.

(74.8392 rubles – U.S. $1)

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