Booking fined 6M rubles for LGBT 'propaganda' in hotel message
A court fined the Booking service 6 million rubles for 'LGBT propaganda' due to a message about a 'Pride month' for hotels. The Tagansky Court of Moscow fined the hotel booking service Booking six million rubles under articles on 'LGBT propaganda' and failure to remove prohibited materials.
Consensus
- Booking was fined 6 million rubles by the Tagansky District Court in Moscow.
- The fine was for two violations: promoting LGBT content and failing to remove prohibited content.
- Each violation carried a 3 million ruble penalty.
- The case involved a message about accommodating LGBT guests during Pride Month for international hotel partners.
- A photo was attached to the message and discovered by Roskomnadzor in March.
- Booking claimed the page was removed on March 11.
- Roskomnadzor reported that the content was not removed in time.
- The court also fined Pinterest, Twitch, and TikTok 3.5 million rubles each on the same day for failing to monitor prohibited content.
- The LGBT movement is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia.
Points of divergence
- The court also fined Pinterest, Twitch, and Tiktok 3.5 million rubles each for failing to monitor prohibited content, with Twitch having drug propaganda streams and TikTok having three videos promoting non-traditional relationships. — mediazona
- The advertisements were for hotels operating outside of Russia. — tg_echoonline_news
- Booking announced its exit from the Russian market in March 2022 due to the start of the military operation in Ukraine. — kommersant
- Booking argued that only adults can use the site, and the judge questioned whether users must show passports to view posts. — mediazona
- Booking stated that Roskomnadzor sent notifications to email addresses not designated for government requests, despite Booking having a dedicated channel for such communications. — mediazona
- The court fined Pinterest, Twitch, and TikTok on the same day for failing to monitor banned content. — tvrain
- The court fined Pinterest, Twitch, and Tiktok on the same day for failing to monitor forbidden content. — tg_tvrain
Coverage (8 sources)
- Court fined Booking service 6 million rubles for «LGBT propaganda» due to message about «Pride month» for hotels — ASTRA
- Booking fined 6 mln rubles for LGBT Pride Month hotel ads... — ЭХО / Новости
- Booking fined for propaganda and failure to remove prohibited content — Вести
- Russian authorities fined Booking 6 million rubles for «LGBT propaganda» due to message about «Pride month» for hotels — Медиазона
- Court fined Booking for 6 million rubles for prohibited content — Коммерсантъ
- Booking fined six million rubles for publishing content for hotels about LGBT guests during Pride — Дождь
- Booking fined six million rubles for publishing content for hotels about LGBT guests during Pride — Дождь (Telegram)
- Booking.com fined 6 million rubles for LGBT propaganda and failure to remove information — Интерфакс
Key entities
- Booking
- Moscow
- Russia
- Tagansky Court
- Roskomnadzor
- Taganskoy District Court
- Caution, News
- INTERFAX.RU
- Interfax
- TASS
- Suda
- Booking.com
- LGBT propaganda
- Alexandra Anokhina