We got a complaint’: YouTube deletes channels focusing on Crimea & eastern Ukraine, cites ‘terms of use’ violation

Google has unexpectedly

Google has unexpectedly wiped the channels of three Russian-speaking news outlets from its video service YouTube, explaining the decision to one of them by “terms of use violation.”

Google’s erasure of alternative media seems to have gone one step further on Wednesday with channels of three media outlets simply disappearing from YouTube. The channels had years of presence on the service and thousands of subscribers. The more popular of their videos counted views in the millions. Now the content is gone from YouTube, and only a warning can be seen that the channels have been terminated for violating the terms of service.

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