Russian journalists and content creators have been advised to use digital services based in their own country, after California-based streaming service YouTube labeled a film from RT as “offensive.”
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal communications agency has written to Google, the California-based company that owns YouTube, over the restrictions on the documentary, ‘USA 2020: Up in arms.’ In a statement, the regulator said that “cases of the administration of the YouTube video hosting service blocking, labeling, warning, consent and other restrictions with respect to materials of Russian media and journalists have become more frequent.”
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