Google has blocked the channel of the Russian lower house of parliament, the Duma, on YouTube, and the Russians are threatening to block the video sharing service in response.
Russia has once again YouTube is threatening a complete ban after parent company Google blocked Duma's channel. The video-sharing company blocked the channel on the grounds that it violated their terms of use - from a Reuters. Russia's state media authority Roskomnadzor has already threatened to ban YouTube, but a spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry said that this could now happen.
Russia has already restricted access to Facebook and Instagram after the IT giant Meta Platforms, which owns the platforms, was "as an extremist". In addition, Twitter has also been blocked in the country.
The Russian media authority announced last week that it was taking punitive measures against Google, claiming that the search giant was spreading lies on the interfaces of the sites it operates. A Reuters report from the media agency claims that Google is violating Russian law by distributing images of the war on YouTube that do not correspond to reality. Russia is imposing a series of sanctions against Google, including the display of text on its search engine that says the company is violating Russian law.
Putin's only "a special military operationOn 24 February, Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine as part of a war it called "demilitarisation and Nazification".
