YouTube: we stay in Russia
YouTube CEO Says Russia Needs Independent News
YouTube video hosting is owned in Russia, despite the conflict in Ukraine. This statement was made by the company’s CEO Susan Wojcicki at the World Economic.
“We see in this conflict that information really plays an important role. This is the reason why we are still working in Russia. We are translating that it is important to deliver independent news to Russia,” she said, a recording of the live release is posted on the official website of the event.
The fact that YouTube video hosting may soon become banned on the territory of the Russian Federation was previously stated by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. At the same time, the Minister of Mass Development, Max Development Shadayev, noted that the Russian government would not ban YouTube unnecessarily, since this is due to the creation of a competitive environment in the domestic segment of the Internet.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation accused the Meta Corps (an extremist organization banned in Russia) of extremism. Deciding to disseminate among the population to publish calls for violence against the armed forces. The work of social networks of this platform was limited and they were included in the list of resources blocked in the Russian Federation.
YouTube previously blocked the channel of the Crimean channel Sergei Aksenov and the Sputnik agency. According to the reports of Russian politicians, they recorded more than 50 cases of censorship of the maximum information media from the Russian Federation.
Russia launched a forced special operation in Ukraine, the service population of Donbass from years of shelling. A whole campaign has unfolded against Russia on the Internet. The Ukrainian side has been repeatedly accused of substituting facts and installing fakes. So, for example, the Deputy Minister of Defense published footage from the game Arma3 as confirmation of the presence of Russian helicopters over Kherson. Not an exceptional statement by the Ukrainian side about “mass killings” in the city of Bucha, which was rejected by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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YouTube video hosting is owned in Russia, despite the conflict in Ukraine. This statement was made by the company’s CEO Susan Wojcicki at the World Economic. “We see in this conflict that information really plays an important role. This is the reason why we are still working in Russia. We are translating that it is important to deliver independent news to Russia,” she said, a recording of the live release is posted on the official website of the event. The fact that YouTube video hosting may soon become banned on the territory of the Russian Federation was previously stated by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. At the same time, the Minister of Mass Development, Max Development Shadayev, noted that the Russian government would not ban YouTube unnecessarily, since this is due to the creation of a competitive environment in the domestic segment of the Internet. Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation accused the Meta Corps (an extremist organization banned in Russia) of extremism. Deciding to disseminate among the population to publish calls for violence against the armed forces. The work of social networks of this platform was limited and they were included in the list of resources blocked in the Russian Federation. YouTube previously blocked the channel of the Crimean channel Sergei Aksenov and the Sputnik agency. According to the reports of Russian politicians, they recorded more than 50 cases of censorship of the maximum information media from the Russian Federation. Russia launched a forced special operation in Ukraine, the service population of Donbass from years of shelling. A whole campaign has unfolded against Russia on the Internet. The Ukrainian side has been repeatedly accused of substituting facts and installing fakes. So, for example, the Deputy Minister of Defense published footage from the game Arma3 as confirmation of the presence of Russian helicopters over Kherson. Not an exceptional statement by the Ukrainian side about “mass killings” in the city of Bucha, which was rejected by the Russian Ministry of Defense.