Google has long imposed sanctions against Russia’s occupation of Ukraine, which has been going on since the end of March. Company YouTube for some channels in the sanctions imposed on delete video punished and blocked some channels. In this sense YouTube Russia sanctions The invoice appeared. Number of YouTube users in Russia at the moment 90 million level. In this sense, Google held back from imposing sanctions on Russian users for a while.
How many video deletions and how many channels did YouTube block?
Clashes between Ukraine and Russia continue, though not as intensely as they used to be. Technology companies have also taken many sanctions decisions against the occupation that Russia continues by taking the whole world against it. One of them, Google, started to impose sanctions for YouTube videos that appeal to a large user base in the country.
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Judging by the figures, YouTube has imposed a penalty of permanently deleting 70,000 videos under the Russian sanction. Again in this sense, 9 thousand YouTube channels were suspended under the sanctions. YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan made a statement on the subject.
Accordingly, Mohan, in a statement to The Guardian, stated that they used the company’s violence policy for this incident. Accordingly, YouTube takes precautions against broadcasts such as praising or denying major acts of violence.
In this sense, YouTube is implementing such a comprehensive video removal policy for the first time with the Russian sanction. Videos praising the occupation published in Russia are among those that have been primarily deleted. Again, videos praising Russia’s policies and affirming the occupation began to be deleted in the second stage.
During this period, important content producers appeared in Ukraine, Poland and Russia, giving information about the occupation. Accordingly, these new content producers have gained more than 40 million views on YouTube since the invasion.
So what do you think, is YouTube justified in deleting videos and suspending channels under the Russian sanction? We welcome your comments under the news and on the SDN Forum pages.