Do not obey the rules, Russia is preparing criminal penalties to Google

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – The Russian government has accused the Internet giant Google of not complying with the country's rules. The reason for this is that the US company has rejected the Russian government's request to remove the page or website considered banned in Russia.

Quote page The edgeOn Wednesday (28/11/2018), the Russian government's communication agency, Roskomnadzor, said in a statement that Google was not connected to database contains a list the site banned in this country.

This led the Russian government to accuse Google of failing to comply with local government rules.

Due to the non-compliance with the Russian rules, Google is also threatened with a fine of 700,000,000 rubles or equivalent to 10,000 USD or equivalent to 150 million Rp.

Although the fine is quite small, in the report, Reuters stated that the Russian government was preparing more dramatic measures.

For example, consider charging Google a fine equal to 1% of his total annual income because he does not want to comply with similar rules.

Unfortunately, Google did not comment when asked to respond to this case in Russia.

Russia has in fact designed a series of regulations in recent years. These regulations give the government more power to enforce censorship the Web.

The Russian government has come up against websites such as Wikipedia and others because of these rules.

Previously, Google had been sanctioned by Russia. The incident occurred in 2016. Russia then fined an amount of $ 6.75 million to Google for conducting monopolistic practices on its Android.