US streaming giant Netflix will not comply with a Russian law that requires all video content providers with over 100,000 daily views to add 20 free-to-air TV channels to their platform. “Given the current situation, we have no plans to add these channels to our service,” a Netflix spokesperson told …
Read More »Tech giant YouTube doesn’t seem to know why it banned our channels, head of RT DE reveals, as fight to restore them continues
“It seems to us that YouTube first goes swinging to block channels and only then starts to ‘investigate’ the reasons for doing it,” Dinara Toktosunova, the head of RT in Germany, said. She was referring to messages her Berlin-based branch received from the video hosting services after appealing its decision to …
Read More »RT appeals against YouTube deletion of German-language channels, as Moscow vows ‘zero tolerance’ stance to censorship by Big Tech
The popular services were abruptly deleted earlier this week, with YouTube accusing them of trying to circumvent a ‘community guidelines’ strike handed down for ‘medical misinformation’ in four videos related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. RT DE and DFP appealed the video-hosting platform’s decision late on Thursday, urging it to …
Read More »If YouTube’s block of RT’s German channels is about ‘misinformation’, when will MSNBC & CNN be banned for Russiagate conspiracies?
The decision, understood to have been taken over allegations the broadcaster tried to circumvent a ‘community standards strike’ handed down over ‘medical misinformation’, has seen Russia’s regulators rally round RT DE and its sister account, Der Fehlende Part. Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal executive agency responsible for overseeing the media, warned Google …
Read More »YouTube is out of order banning channels like RT in Germany, as it’s got a legal pass in exchange for promising free speech
It must be a wonderful feeling to sit among the tech giant royalty high above the little people in Mountain View, California, making arbitrary, far-reaching decisions to punish anyone who doesn’t see the world the way you do. We’re all mere playthings at their mercy. Flick a switch here, click …
Read More »YouTube deletes 2 channels of RT’s sister project RT DE with 600K subscribers over alleged community guidelines violation
The Google-owned video service “has deleted the RT DE channel, as well as our second channel DFP [Der Fehlende Part, “the missing piece”], without the right to restoration,” Dinara Toktosunova, head of RT in Germany, announced on her Telegram channel on Tuesday. The main RT DE channel was barred from …
Read More »YouTube bans several channels of Myanmar media citing ‘community guidelines’ – media
According to Reuters, the banned channels include MRTV, (Myanmar Radio and Television) as well as the military-owned Myawaddy Media, MWD Variety, and MWD Myanmar. “We have terminated a number of channels and removed several videos from YouTube in accordance with our community guidelines and applicable laws,” a spokesperson for the …
Read More »YouTube REMOVES video of Trump’s CPAC speech from RT channels – yet it’s ok with the SAME video posted by Western outlets
On Tuesday, RT and its German-language channel RT DE got a notice from YouTube that the video of Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida on Sunday was being flagged for a “strike” under the platform’s rules on “supporting the 2020 US presidential election” announced in …
Read More »Russian Federal channels tell about the situation in Belarus
“The police tried to peacefully stop the riots” Russian Federal TV channels is very sparingly told about the situation in Belarus, where after the announcement of the state exit polls all night continued violent clashes of protesters with security officers. So, in the morning newscast on “Russia 24”, correspondent Elizabeth …
Read More »In the Internet appeared the petition of expulsion from the Federal channels “overstayers” there Solovyov
In the Internet appeared the petition of expulsion from the Federal channels “overstayers” there Solovyov and Malysheva Russian published on the website Change.org petition to dismiss TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Malyshev. Earlier, some residents already were outraged that the work of both the Federal channels is in accordance …
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