Moscow. Google-owned streaming platform YouTube has said it is now blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets globally where two of Russia’s state-affiliated channels, Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, along with their subsidiaries, were approved by the European Union last week.
According to TechCrunch, this is above and beyond any legal mandate to block this content, but not entirely unprecedented. Last week, Apple removed RT and Sputnik’s apps from its global app store following a request from Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
That said, YouTube’s wording suggests that it may move on except for the six (total) RT and Sputnik entities sanctioned by the European Union, as the company writes that it is no longer ‘Russian state-funded media-linked YouTube. Globally blocking access to channels.
While the expanded YouTube blocks on Russian state media are ‘effective immediately’, according to an update to the policy the platform just tweeted, it also warns that the change may take time to take effect – writing that ‘we Hope you take the time to ramp up our systems.
In another new move, YouTube said it would carry out Ukraine-focused enforcement of some existing policies from its Community Guidelines, which prohibit content that denies ‘well-documented violent incidents’, and reduces or makes it frivolous.
—AnyTV News
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