Russia fines Pinterest for LGBTQI+ content

In Russia, Pinterest was fined more than 10 million rubles for LGBTQI+ content.

On September 2, Moscow's Tagansky Court fined the social network Pinterest 10.8 million rubles. Reporters reporting from the courtroom said that the grounds for the fine were LGBTQI+ content and "calls to extremism," reported Parni+.

According to the court's press service, Pinterest Europe Limited was fined twice by the court. One of the fines was 7 million rubles, the other 3.8 million rubles. Both fines were imposed for failure to remove prohibited information. The press service did not disclose the nature of the information, and no information on this issue was published on the court's website.

Articles 13.41 and 13.50 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation are "censorship" fines often used by Roskomnadzor. In the first half of the year alone, Telegram paid a fine of 14 million rubles under these articles for failing to remove LGBTQİ+related content. In Russia, these articles are also used to punish the distribution of information about VPNs and drugs.

According to the press service of the court, Telegram was fined 11.4 million rubles, Google 3.8 million rubles, and Apple 3.5 million rubles under the same article yesterday. Telegram's fines were imposed for "fake news" about the war in Ukraine, while the reasons for the fines imposed on other companies are still unknown.

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