The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined MegaFon, which owns the Megafon TV online cinema, one million rubles under a protocol on “demonstrating” LGBT relationships without marking 18+. This is reported by the correspondent of «Caution, news» from the courtroom.
The protocol was drawn up under the article on the distribution of underage materials with a «demonstration» of LGBT attitudes or preferences on the Internet (part 2 of article 6.21.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The reason for the administrative case was the film Love, Love, Love, which was posted on Megafon TV with a 16+ mark. violation of the mention of one of the heroines of the film about the wedding with another woman. “My wife Alice and I got married in the desert,” she said. Another woman in the cinema says that her husband left her for a boyfriend.
Earlier, Megafon was fined the same amount due to showing the film The Barber of England with a 16+ mark. The film “depicts two heroes of the same sex (female) kissing in a sexual context,” the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg explained, when Tricolor Cinema and TV was fined according to a similar protocol.