TikTok was fined 3 million rubles ($51,000) for failing to remove content that violated Russian laws on “LGBT propaganda”, Russian news agencies reported, quoted by Reuters. According to the sentence, the offensive videos “promoted non-traditional, LGBT, feminist values and a distorted representation of traditional sexual values” on their platform.
In April 2022, Russia attacked Meta for the same reasons, while Facebook and Instagram were already banned in the country. The company had to pay a fine of 50,000 euros.
In 2013, Russia passed a law against “gay propaganda” that prohibits any person or entity from promoting same-sex relationships between children. Legislators would like to extend this law to adults.
Twitch also doomed
For its part, Twitch will have to pay a fine of 4 million rubles ($68,000) for having hosted the broadcast of an interview with Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Twitch had already been condemned by Russia earlier in the year, for the same reason.
Since the beginning of March and with the dispatch of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers to Ukraine, Russia has adopted a law that prohibits “discrediting” the armed forces, under penalty of up to 15 years in prison. Foreign technology companies have also been warned against violating this law.
In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, also risks a fine for failing to remove “fakes” about the Russian military.
Source: BFM TV
