Blocking YouTube video hosting in the Russian Federation will do more harm than good. He also wrote that Russian bloggers have no future on this platform. telegram channel State Duma deputy Anton Gorelkin.
The deputy chairman of parliament’s information policy, information technology and communications committee declared that YouTube remains a “hostile platform”. The legislator emphasized that the service deliberately violates Russian legislation and no one can guarantee that the video hosting will refuse a more aggressive policy in the future.
“Russian creators have no future on YouTube,” Gorelkin warned.
But he was skeptical that the platform should be completely blocked in Russia. As can be understood from the deputy’s words, the relevant decision will lead to more negative results than positive ones.
Alexander Khishtein, formerly Chairman of the Information Policy Committee of the Russian State Duma statedHe said there are currently no plans to block YouTube in the country. As he said, this will not happen until a full-fledged analogue of this service appears in Russia.
Previously YouTube management disabled Ability to add new videos to the Vzglyad newspaper channel.