Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Nastasin said that YouTube is not a neutral platform for hosting videos and follows Washington’s political guidelines. reports TASS.
“It is important to remember that in the case of YouTube we are not dealing with neutral transnational corporations focused on the interests of the audience, but with an American economic operator working on Washington’s political directives,” he said.
Nastassin also noted that YouTube’s administration continues to ignore Roskomnadzor’s legal demands to remove more than 60,000 banned extremist materials, including calls for illegal actions against Russian citizens. According to Nastassin, this confirms that the company does not focus on the interests of its audience, but plays the role of an American economic operator following the US political line.
Since the beginning of July 2024, YouTube’s performance in Russia began to deteriorate – videos began to load more slowly, interface lags appeared, etc. Telecom operators and Internet providers claim that the deterioration in service is due to the long-term non-maintenance of YouTube infrastructure in the Russian Federation by Google.
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Source: Gazeta
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