Roskomnadzor called the actions of the YouTube administration “terrorist”
On March 11, YouTube in support of Ukraine announced the immediate blocking of the Russian state-owned media channels around the world in addition to other sanctions-the video service and the Google search engine also stopped showing ads in Russia and completely disabled all opportunities for monetizing videos for users from the country due to military aggression. And then it became clear that blocking YouTube in Russia is only a matter of time. And now Roskomnadzor has officially put forward a claim to Google — the Russian regulator demands that the American company “immediately stop spreading threats against Russian citizens” in the YouTube video service.
Roskomnadzor recalled a video with calls to disable the railway communications of the Russian Federation and Belarus (obviously, we are talking about the appeal of the head of the Office of the president of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich, who previously called for declaring a “partisan rail war” in Russia and disrupting the supply of goods to the Russian army by rail).
Such actions of the YouTube administration, according to the official position of Roskomnadzor, are “terrorist” and “threaten the life and health of Russian citizens.”
And although Roskomnadzor does not explicitly mention blocking retaliation if Google and YouTube refuse to comply with racist demands, it is easy to read in the rhetoric of the Russian regulator, which speaks of “anti-Russian position of the American company Google LLC” and mentions Meta (parent company Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), which in Russia was previously recognized as an “extremist organization.”
The social network Facebook was blocked in Russia together with Twitter on March 4, and Instagram in Russia was blocked on March 14. YouTube is expected to be blocked in Russia in the coming days.
