MOSCOW, June 5 (RAPSI) - Google's YouTube LLC has withdrawn the second suit it filed with the Moscow Commercial Court against the decision of consumer rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor to ban one of its videos for containing pro-suicide information, RAPSI reports from the court on Tuesday.
The court dismissed the company's previous appeal against the regulator's decision regarding the same video on May 6.
Rospotrebnadzor issued two instructions to ban a YouTube video which the regulator believes to contain information which promotes or explains how to commit suicide. The two instructions issued differ in "procedural details," a Google representative told Digit.ru.
In the video, a girl wearing dark makeup shows how to apply makeup to make it look like you have committed suicide. YouTube's lawyers said during the hearing of the first suit that the video did not contain any pro-suicide information but was merely a video makeup lesson.
The regulator's representatives argued that the clip's audio and video sequences, as well as the name, contain pro-suicide information.
Rospotrebnadzor earlier said that YouTube refused to admit that "there needs to be a constructive dialogue over pro-suicide information" and continued to promote harmful content online in violation of legislation.
The law On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development, which became effective in September 2012, stipulates that an automated register of domain names be kept for identifying websites which contain prohibited information, in particular, child pornography, ways of committing suicide and drug making instructions.