A court in Moscow fined Twitch 14 million rubles

The Tagansky Court of Moscow imposed two fines on Twitch in the amount of 14 million rubles.

Fines were imposed for failure to remove prohibited information containing calls for extremist activities, materials with pornographic images of minors, and information about methods of producing and using drugs.

MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. The Tagansky Court of Moscow imposed two fines in the amount of 14 million rubles on Twitch for failure to remove prohibited information, the press service of the Moscow City Court told RIA Novosti.

“By the decisions of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow, Twitch Interactive, Inc. was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 4 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, and the company was sentenced to two fines totaling 14 million rubles,” the press service said.

This provision provides for liability for failure to remove information containing calls for extremist activities, materials with pornographic images of minors, and information about methods of producing and using drugs.