The Russian Federation will reduce the speed of YouTube on desktop computers by 70% in response to the video hosting service blocking Russian channels.
The decision was announced this Thursday by the chairman of the Duma’s parliamentary committee for information policy, Alexandr Jinshtein.
“Before the end of this week, YouTube download speed on desktop computers may be reduced by 40% and by next weekend by 70%,” he wrote on the Telegram social network.
This measure, he specified, “will only affect desktop computers and not mobile communications.”
The MP added: “The ‘degradation’ of YouTube is a measure that we were forced to take, which is not directed against Russian users, but against the administration of this foreign resource, which continues to consider that it can violate and ignore our laws with impunity.”
He also said that the decision to apply this measure in the summer “is not by chance”, since most users are on vacation and use the internet more on their mobile devices.
Jinshtein assured that “all this is a consequence of the service’s anti-Russian policy, which consequently eliminates the channels of our public figures (bloggers, journalists, artists) whose positions differ from the Western point of view.”
Russian authorities have restricted or banned several Western social media sites. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moscow declared Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, to be “extremist” and blocked the sites.
Source: www.jornaldenegocios.pt
