YouTube blochează canalul Duma TV al Parlamentului rus, determinând oficialii ruși să avertizeze despre represalii

Topline

YouTube blocked Duma TV, a channel that broadcasts Russia’s lower house of parliament, on Saturday due to U.S. sanctions, leading Russian officials to warn YouTube’s parent company, Alphabet, of retaliatory restrictions.

Fapte-cheie

A mesaj on the Duma TV channel said the account had been “terminated for a violation of YouTube’s Terms of Service.”

Alphabet did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Forbes, dar spus multiplu puncte de vanzare media it is “committed to compliance with all applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws.”

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote in a Postare telegramă, “from the look of it, YouTube has signed its own warrant,” and urged users to save content and transfer it to Russian platforms—hinting at a retaliatory ban.

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media regulator, cerut on Telegram that Google, the Alphabet unit that contains YouTube, restore access to the channel, accusing it of adhering to “a pronounced anti-Russian position in the information war unleashed by the West.”

Critic șef

State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the blocking of the channel is more “proof of violations of the rights and freedoms of citizens by Washington.” “The U.S. wants to obtain a monopoly on promoting information,” Volodin said in a Postare telegramă. “We cannot let it happen.”

Fundalul cheie

Russia and big tech companies have been sparring since Rusia a invadat Ucraina in February and as Russia cracks down on dissent and seeks to limit the information Russians have access to. Russia restricted access to Twitter, Facebook și Instagram in March, and the companies also took action, like limiting the reach of posts linking to Russian state-affiliated news sources. Roskomnadzor announced Thursday it was moving to ban Google’s advertising services in the country, revendicare YouTube had “turned into one of the key platforms spreading fake news” about the Russian invasion.

Numărul mare

$2 billion. That’s how much Russia’s bans on Facebook and Instagram va costa their parent company, Meta, according to Forbes estimări.

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