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2024: Lawsuit against blogger who found "unnecessary" chip in monitors
At the end of February 2024, it became known that the Russian computer equipment manufacturer LightCom filed a lawsuit against blogger Maxim Gorshenin, who found an "unnecessary" domestic chip in the company's monitors. In addition, Lightcom expects to prosecute the Russian structure of Google, Ruform LLC (owns the Rutube service) and Zen Platform LLC, a legal entity of the Zen service, formerly known as Yandex Zen.
The trial is due to the fact that Gorshenin published a video on the Internet in which he spoke about the presence in the V-Max monitor of a Light PTsVT.852859.300 produced by a Russian controller from Milander, which, according to him, is not used in any way in the operation of the device. The chip, it is alleged, is installed only so that the monitor itself can get into the register of Russian products, and Lightcom got access to public procurement.
According to CNews, in the lawsuit, Lightcom demands compensation from Gorshenin in the amount of 5.3 million rubles. The Russian blogger says he was not notified of the initiation of the trial: according to him, the company "deliberately did not want to agree pre-trial" with him and, perhaps, hoped that he "would not know about the lawsuit and would not come to the consideration of the case."
Gorshenin, in a conversation with the editors of CNews, considered the presence of Zena, Google and RuTube legal entities in the list of defendants to be a consequence of the fact that Light wants to remove his videos criticizing the company's monitors from the corresponding Internet platforms. The claim for compensation may be explained by the fact that the published materials could defame Light's reputation and thereby harm the business. Meanwhile, the number of points in the register of Russian products at Lightcom monitors has significantly decreased: if in the fall of 2023 their number was 140, then after re-listing at the beginning of 2024, the figure decreased to 90.[1]
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