MOSCOW: Russian state communications regulator
Roskomnadzor said on Friday that U.S. social network Twitter was complying with
its demand to remove content banned in Russia, but that it was still taking too
long to do so.
It said Twitter had removed 60% of such content since Moscow
slowed the speed of its service in March to press its demand, but that more
than 1,000 illegal materials remained accessible, down from more than 3,000
earlier this year.
Russia this month extended the punitive
slowdown until May 15, while acknowledging that the U.S. social media company
had accelerated the deletion of content.
Roskomnadzor
said it had identified more than 900 new cases of banned content since the
slowdown began on March 10.
It said that on average Twitter was
removing newly detected illegal content within 81 hours of receiving a request.
That is still much longer than the 24 hours demanded in law.
Roskomnadzor
says it wants Twitter to delete content that contains child pornography, drug
abuse information or calls for minors to commit suicide.
Twitter denies
allowing its platform to be used to promote illegal behaviour, says its has a
zero-tolerance policy for child sexual exploitation, and prohibits the
promotion of suicide or self-harm.
In an April 28
meeting, Roskomnadzor and Twitter agreed to establish a direct line of
communication between the watchdog and Twitter's moderation service.
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