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Russia Demands Google Not To Promote 'Illegal' Events On YouTube

posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 13 2019, @03:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-not-legal-to-watch,-only-to-do dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Tens of thousands of people on Saturday staged what observers called the country's biggest political protest in years, defying a crackdown to demand free elections for the legislature of the capital, Moscow. Multiple YouTube channels broadcast the event live. Some videos attracted more than 50,000 people according to organisers. In contrast to previous protests, the authorities had approved this rally.

It said Russia would consider a failure by Google to respond to the request as "interference in its sovereign affairs" and "hostile influence (over) and obstruction of democratic elections in Russia".

If the company does not take measures to prevent events from being promoted on its platforms, Russia reserves the right to respond accordingly, Roscomnadzor said in its statement, without giving details.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Tuesday August 13 2019, @05:01PM (4 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 13 2019, @05:01PM (#879747) Journal

    Remember, what you are hearing in the US about events in Russia is coming through propaganda channels.

    Let us note that those threats against Google/YouTube came from the Russian government propaganda channel.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @05:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @05:24PM (#879753)

    It's their country, so?

    The CIA, Sorosites, or whoever is behind the global MSM have a knack for picking up on nutcases and publicising their "story", as long as they can construct an angle about the "diabolical Russian state". Take this idiot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Pavlensky [wikipedia.org] . Someone nails their nutsack to Red Square, and the media is like "Oooh. Avant-garde! Putin is repressing him!". They even gave him "asylum" in the West.

    A "Russian troll" pointed out that a few months after his arrival, he aimed his art at setting fire to the Bank of France and was as a result oppressed by Macron's regime. Subdued reaction from the MSM of course.

  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Tuesday August 13 2019, @07:40PM (2 children)

    by Nuke (3162) on Tuesday August 13 2019, @07:40PM (#879807)

    Let us note that those threats against Google/YouTube came from the Russian government propaganda channel.

    So your point is what? That they therefore must be exagerated? That they are not real? But that's a good thing isn't it? Or is that a bad thing? IDK.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday August 13 2019, @08:12PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday August 13 2019, @08:12PM (#879809)

      It's khallow, he has a point like an unripe watermelon. Blunt, bitter, with lots of annoying seeds that won't grow.

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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday August 16 2019, @12:44AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 16 2019, @12:44AM (#880795) Journal

      That they therefore must be exagerated? That they are not real?

      Um, yes. The threats are real, because that's the definition of threat, but the pretexts for the threats are not.