MOSCOW, July 25 The head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, said in his Telegram channel that the «degradation» of YouTube is a forced step directed not against Russian users, but against the administration of the foreign Internet resource.
«The «degradation» of YouTube is a forced step, directed not against Russian users, but against the administration of a foreign resource, which still believes that it can violate and ignore our legislation with impunity,» Khinshtein wrote.
He noted that Rostelecom is already recording a deterioration in the quality of video uploads to YouTube.
The deputy added that YouTube will see that the Russian government has moved from persuasion to concrete steps.
According to him, YouTube users complain that the video hosting service is becoming less and less convenient.