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MOSCOW, July 10. Since the beginning of 2024, YouTube has blocked more than 80 Russian channels, the press service of Roskomnadzor said.
«The number of domestic resources blocked by video hosting has increased this year. Thus, since the beginning of 2024, the service has limited access to 83 Russian Internet -pages,” the department reported.
How noted in RKN, the service massively blocks the channels of Russian state media, the pages of famous domestic writers and artists who speak out in support of Russia and the actions of the authorities.
It is noted that since 2020, video hosting has limited access to such channels as Solovyov LIVE, Crimea 24, RT, RBC, NTV, and the official channel of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia. In addition, YouTube blocked the accounts of Polina Gagarina, Oleg Gazmanov, Grigory Leps and Yulia Chicherina.
«Restrictive measures fundamentally violate the key principles of the free dissemination of information and unimpeded access to it. Such actions by video hosting are unacceptable: this is an act of censorship,» — added the department.
At the same time, to date, more than 61.3 thousand prohibited materials on YouTube have not yet been removed, which contain fakes about a special operation, extremist materials, propaganda of non-traditional sexual preferences and content about the involvement of minors in committing illegal crimes actions.