Roskomnadzor will seek administrative liability for Wikipedia for failing to remove “illegal information” from the source. About said In the press service of the department on Thursday, March 31.
“Roskomnadzor will draw up a protocol on a crime in accordance with Art. 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, ”says regarding the Wikipedia Internet portal, so as not to delete unreliable socially important material and other prohibited information.
Wikipedia was fined 800 thousand rubles. up to 4 million rubles
Roskomnadzor, previously in connection with the requirement of the Prosecutor General informed The administration of the site about the need to remove “false information about a special military operation in Ukraine aimed at misinforming Russian users.” It was also about the number of victims among the civilian population.
Location “Wikipedia”
The situation in a conversation with socialbites.ca commented Stanislav Kozlovsky, managing director of the non-profit partnership “Wikimedia.Ru” (busy in supporting Wikipedia):
“We have the right to use the brand, but to take part in the courts, to be responsible, etc. we don’t have rights. This is done by the Wikimedia Foundation’s head office in San Francisco, where they can request payment of a fine. We are not proper responders, we do not manage servers, we do not have any skills.
Not all Wikipedia content is determined by an organization, but by a community of Wikipedia members who decide, as objectively as possible, how to name this or that article in disputes. In this case, the option is as neutral as possible.
No fakes there. All information given there, the source is indicated. Information about the victims was taken from the website of the UN, which includes Russia, including the Security Council. For us, the United Nations is a highly authoritative source, ”said the interlocutor of the publication.
In an interview with a Ukrainian publication in May 2021, he noted that Roskomnadzor has not had any claims against the site for several years.
“After 2015 Roskomnadzor no longer sends us letters. But currently there are seven Wikipedia articles on the banned site registration, but Wikipedia is not blocked. These are articles about cocaine, self-immolation, suicide – those kinds of articles. “There has been no notification on political issues from Roskomnadzor,” he said.
special military operation
February 24 Russia start Special military operation in Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin described its goal as “protecting people who have been subjected to eight years of bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime.” According to him, this required “demilitarization and gentrification of Ukraine, bringing to justice all war criminals responsible for bloody crimes against civilians in Donbass”.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation did not report civilian casualties resulting from the actions of the Russian army. The ministry claims that they do not attack civilian targets.
Source: Gazeta