The Russian government is reported to be enforcing further demands on tech giant Google to ensure that Russian audiences do not interact with unlicensed gambling operators and further banned content.
The Silicon Valley giant sees itself at the centre of a new censorship charge sanctioned by Russian media agency Roskomnadzor, who have castigated Google for maintaining ‘insufficient measures’ in relation to filtering banned content from its search results.
Issuing a corporate statement, Roskomnadzor would warn Google of its ‘obligation to exclude from search results, any output of links to internet resources which hold illegal information, access to which is restricted in Russia’.
News of Roskomnadzor’s Google demands follows the Russian Federal Tax Service (FTS) adding a further sixteen operators to Russia’s ‘online gambling blacklist’ – which sanctions Russian internet service providers to ban IP access, whilst further terminating Russian payment processing provisions with ‘unauthorised websites’.
In its latest blacklist update, the Russian government targets a number of Curacao based online gambling operators, deemed to be illegally targeting Russian consumers.
Nevertheless, the Kremlin’s expanded blacklist confirms established CIS bookmakers, Bonnal Ltd (1xBet), Shamoo Holding Ltd (MostBet) and Panbet Curacao NV (MarathonBet) as ‘illegal operators’.
Roskomnadzor enforcements sanctioned in 2017, deemed that all authorised Russian gambling transactions should be processed through state-owned centralised payment system TSUPIS
