Court upholds Google’s $2 billion turnover fine

The Moscow Arbitration Court refused to invalidate the turnover fine against Google in the amount of more than 2 billion rubles. The fine was imposed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). She accused the company of opaque rules for blocking accounts and handling content on YouTube. in FAS declaredthat the company would have to pay this penalty for abuse of dominance.

Regulator fined Google at the end of July. The FAS claims that the account blocking rules developed by the American company “are non-transparent, biased and unpredictable.” Google had to pay the turnover fine within two months. The antitrust case against Google has been considered since April 2021, it was initiated at the request of the Center for Internet Technologies public organization.

Details – in the material “Kommersant” “YouTube was recognized as opaque and biased”.

Laura Keffer