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Disinfo: What YouTube and Google did to Tsargrad is a political repression

Summary

It turns out that YouTube and Google consider themselves entitled to act extraterritorially, that is, by spreading their laws on the territory of other states. Well, then Russians have to stop using it and kick them out from Russia.

NewsFront, Roman Ostashko, Tsargrad, almost all Donetsk residents, even a newspaper with news from Donbas were banned. Well, this is, in fact, political repression. This is war. And we need to make big far-reaching conclusions.

Disproof

A recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about Russophobia, allegedly directed at the pro-Kremlin media.

The account on Youtube of the TV channel "Tsargrad", owned by Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeev, was blocked there due to a violation of the law. Google representatives commented to RBC about it.

“Google complies with all applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws. If we find that an account violates these laws, then we take appropriate action,” the company said.

The lawyers of the "Tsargrad" explained the reason for the blocking by the fact that Konstantin Malofeev is on the US sanctions lists.

According to the US Department of the Treasury, Malofeev is on the sanction list because "he is responsible for, complicit in, or has engaged in, actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine and has materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to, or in support of, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic."

You can read similar cases claiming that "US senators and Macron accused Sputnik and RT of election interference with no evidence", "Europe's position in the situation with Sputnik Estonia - criminal silence", "Russian media are being discriminated in Baltic states", etc.

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Vesti FM - YouTube [from 02:45 to 03:03], [from 15:18 to 15:38] (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 207
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 29/07/2020
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: Russia, Ukraine
  • Keywords: Google, Repression, YouTube, Censorship, Russophobia, Donbas

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July 29, 2020
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A pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Russia being respectful of international law, and never interfering in other country's affairs. The claim was not counterbalanced or critically challenged in the Article.

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It’s DPR, LPR and Russia who are interested in a ceasefire on Donbas, not Ukraine

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July 29, 2020
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the war in Ukraine, claiming that Ukraine refuses to implement the Minsk agreements.

The claims are being made in the context of a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia/so called LNR and DPR which came into force on Monday 27 July 2020. The agreement was "the result of the effective work of the Ukrainian delegation with the support of our international partners in Berlin and Paris," the office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement.

The US Embassy in Warsaw is able to declare any Polish Government as “non grata”

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July 29, 2020
Disproof

A common pro-Kremlin narrative on “lost sovereignty” - in the case of Poland, this country is often presented as a “puppet-state” of the United States, which fully controls the domestic and foreign policy of this country. In addition, Poland is presented as a country without any real international importance or political significance.

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