Today YouTube blocked the channel of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
In response to this, Alexei Pushkov, head of the profile commission of the Federation Council, said that he would appeal to Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation with a proposal to consider the possibility of blocking YouTube in Russia. However, it seems that not everyone meets this initiative.
The head of the temporary commission on sovereignty and prevention of interference in the sovereign affairs of the Russian Federation, Andrey Klim, said that it is not advisable to block YouTube at the moment:
Unfortunately, lately a huge number of people and organizations have associated their business activity with this platform. And all this must be weighed very carefully. We do not shoot at our feet and hands, and we must not shoot.
But this does not mean that we need to keep all these foreign platforms, but that we need to accelerate the pace, develop and promote our resources in the digital space.
— Andrey Klimov
Klimov also added that in Russia YouTube is not considered a generally accepted platform and what happened, “sooner or later would have happened.”
Source: Iphones RU
