Russia fines Amazon over banned content for first time - Reuters

MOSCOW, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A Moscow tribunal connected Tuesday said it had fined Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) 4 cardinal roubles ($65,000) for failing to region banned contented relating to cause usage and suicide, the archetypal specified punishment successful Russia for the U.S. tech giant.

Russia has fined different overseas tech firms for not removing content, portion of what critics accidental is simply a run by the Kremlin to restrict the power of Western exertion companies, particularly since Moscow sent its equipped forces into Ukraine.

The Tagansky District Court said it had fined Amazon 4 cardinal roubles successful 2 abstracted cases, though its connection did not specify what these were. It besides fined Amazon's streaming work Twitch 8 cardinal roubles, besides for not removing banned content.

Interfax quality bureau reported that Amazon's fines acrophobic contented astir the organisation of drugs and accusation astir however to perpetrate suicide.

Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.

Twitch has been fined before, for hosting video interviews with Oleksiy Arestovych, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, that Moscow said contained "fake" information.

On Tuesday, the authorities quality bureau TASS reported that 1 of the 2 4-million-rouble penalties for Twitch acrophobic the broadcast of a caller interrogation with Arestovych, conducted by a Russian lawyer who has been designated a 'foreign agent'.

Twitch did not respond to a petition for comment, but TASS quoted Twitch's lawyer arsenic saying that the offending videos had been deleted by the clip the cases were considered by the court.

Meta Platforms Inc. (META.O) was recovered blameworthy of carrying retired "extremist activities" and its societal networks Facebook and Instagram were banned, portion Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has been fined for a drawstring of alleged offences and its Russian subsidiary has filed for bankruptcy.

Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor connected Tuesday demanded that Google reconstruct entree to the YouTube relationship of the Federation Council, the precocious location of parliament, Russian quality agencies reported.

Reporting by Alexander Marrow; further reporting by Felix Light; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Kevin Liffey

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