{"id":1671096,"date":"2022-10-04T06:05:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1671096"},"modified":"2022-10-04T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:06:11","slug":"russia-fines-tiktok-for-lgbt-propaganda-twitch-over-ukraine-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-fines-tiktok-for-lgbt-propaganda-twitch-over-ukraine-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia fines TikTok for \u2018LGBT propaganda\u2019, Twitch over Ukraine content"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-fines-tiktok-for-lgbt-propaganda-twitch-over-ukraine-content%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1671096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Alexander Marrow<\/p>\n<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Tuesday fined TikTok for failing to delete content that violates Russian laws on \u2018LGBT propaganda\u2019 and streaming service Twitch for hosting a video interview with a Ukrainian political figure that Moscow said contained \u2018fake\u2019 information.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Neither company immediately responded to a Reuters request for comment. Interfax reported that a TikTok representative in the courtroom had insisted the proceedings be terminated, without giving further details. <\/p>\n<p>The fines mark the latest step in Moscow\u2019s long-running dispute with Big Tech, with penalties over content, demands over data storage and some outright bans. <\/p>\n<p>TikTok, owned by Beijing-based IT company ByteDance, was fined 3 million roubles ($51,000), Moscow\u2019s Tagansky District Court said.<\/p>\n<p>News agencies reported that the case against TikTok was based on accusations that the company was \u201cpromoting non-traditional values, LGBT, feminism and a distorted representation of traditional sexual values\u201d on its platform. <\/p>\n<p>Twitch, owned by Amazon, was fined 4 million roubles ($68,000), the court said. News agencies said the case had been drawn up in response to Twitch hosting an interview with Oleksiy Arestovych, and adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.    <\/p>\n<p>Twitch was fined 3 million roubles earlier this year for hosting another Arestovych interview. <\/p>\n<p>Russia passed a law in early March, soon after sending tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, that prohibits \u201cdiscrediting\u201d the armed forces, with a sentence of up to 15 years. Foreign tech firms have been warned against violating that law. <\/p>\n<p>TASS reported on Tuesday that Twitch faces two new fines of up to 8 million roubles for not deleting what Russia considers unreliable information about the course of its \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>RUSSIA\u2019S \u2018LGBT PROPAGANDA\u2019 LAW<\/p>\n<p>Russia is considering expanding its existing \u201cgay propaganda\u201d law, passed in 2013, which bans any person or entity from promoting homosexual relationships to children. Lawmakers have argued the law should be expanded to include adults as well and fines for exposing minors to \u201cLGBT propaganda\u201d should be increased. <\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities say they are defending morality in the face of what they argue are un-Russian liberal values promoted by the West, but human rights activists say the law has been broadly applied to intimidate Russia\u2019s LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, also faces a 4 million rouble fine for not deleting \u201cfakes\u201d about the Russian army, RIA reported. <\/p>\n<p>($1 = 58.8000 roubles)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Alexander Marrow, Editing by Louise Heavens\/Guy Faulconbridge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/russian-court-fines-tiktok\/attachment\/file-photo-tiktok-head-office-in-united-states-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI930EI-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI930EI-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Tuesday fined TikTok for failing to delete content that violates Russian laws on \u2018LGBT propaganda\u2019 and streaming service Twitch for hosting a video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}