Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecom and Internet regulator, is threatening to restrict access to YouTube after the video platform shut down yet another German-language channel run by the Russian state-controlled television network RT (Russia Today).
According to a Roskomnadzor press release published on Friday, December 17, the federal censor sent a letter to YouTube’s parent company, Google, demanding that it lift restrictions on RT auf Sendung and explain why the channel was blocked immediately after it came online on Thursday.
Roskomnadzor decried YouTube’s actions as an “act of censorship,” noting that this is prohibited under the Russian Constitution. The agency also recalled that under Russian law, YouTube could be deemed involved in human rights violations, added to a special registry, and issued a warning from Roskomnadzor.
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