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Zakharova says that there are compelling reasons to take action against YouTube

2024-08-03

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Russian regulators may use "legal tools" against YouTube in connection with systematic violations of Russian legislation and disregard for the rights of the audience by the video hosting service. This is stated in a message published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry by the official representative of the foreign policy department Maria Zakharova.

According to her, the administration of the video hosting service began to systematically cleanse the information field, starting with blocking the accounts of Russian federal regional media, and then moved on to blocking the accounts of government agencies, as well as the accounts of well-known public figures, bloggers and journalists.

“In other words, YouTube carried out an act of direct censorship, obstructing the free distribution and access to information, thereby violating the rights of hundreds of thousands of our subscribers,” the MFA representative added.

Moreover, Zakharova recalls, in August 2022, YouTube removed 29 materials posted on the official channel of the Russian Embassy in London, which, in turn, is a crude attempt to limit the information work of Russian diplomatic missions.

"Thus, we see many compelling reasons for taking action against the YouTube video hosting service. Numerous systematic violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation, demonstrative disregard for the domestic audience and its interests leave the regulatory bodies of our state with the right to use the appropriate legal instruments," Zakharova concluded.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the work of the YouTube video hosting service in Russia will soon slow down to 70%, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein warned on July 26. This will happen because Russian data centers cooperating with the Google platform (the owner of YouTube) plan to stop working with the company under “gray” schemes in the coming days, he specified.

YouTube is not a neutral Internet platform that focuses on the interests of its audience; the video hosting service is working out the political instructions of the US authorities, said Andrei Nastasin, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, on July 31. The YouTube administration continues to ignore the legal demands of Roskomnadzor to remove extremist materials, he added.

On August 1, Russian users began to report problems with the video hosting service en masse.

At the same time, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, stated that YouTube is working normally for him.

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