The Russian parliament channel “Duma TV” had 145 thousand. subscriptions and over 100 million video views. The content that appeared there were mainly MPs’ comments, broadcasts of the State Duma meetings and political programs, it says.
TV pride is disappearing from YouTube. Google blocked the channel of the Russian parliament
On Saturday, he blocked the Duma TV channel of the Russian parliament on YouTube. “Account has been permanently suspended under our export restrictions and sanctions policy,” YouTube said in a statement. Channel closed “for violating YouTube’s terms of service”.
“If we find that an account violates our terms of service, we take appropriate action. Our teams are closely monitoring the situation for any updates and changes,” said Google.
Russian authorities reacted quickly to the blockade, accused Google of “anti-Russian stance” and called for access to the channel to be restored. “The American IT company sticks to a clear anti-Russian position in the information war unleashed by the West against our country,” said Roskomnadzor, the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications.
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Earlier, Roskomnadzor prohibited Google from advertising its resources in. These were, among others such services as: Google search engine, Google Play and Gmail.
Vyacheslav Volodin: This is another proof of the violation of civil rights and liberties
Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin referred to the blocking of the Russian parliament channel, arguing that Washington was a breach of human rights. “This is another proof of Washington’s violation of civil rights and liberties. The US authorities are forcing American IT companies, which include social networking sites, to wage information warfare against our country. Washington, contrary to all democratic principles, is doing everything possible to the one on YouTube, only his point of view, not anyone else. They want to have a monopoly on the dissemination of information. We cannot allow this to happen “- said Volodin, quoted by the Reuters Agency.
“Apparently, YouTube has signed its own verdict. Save the content, transfer it to Russian platforms. Quickly” – spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram.
As a reminder, YouTube has been blocking the Russian state media since March due to disinformation content published on them about the war in Ukraine, which Russia calls “a special military operation”. “Our Community Guidelines prohibit content that denies, minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent events. We are currently removing content about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that violates this policy,” YouTube said at the time on its official Twitter account.
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Source: Gazeta
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