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Digital
Russian court bans YouTube
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 2 August 2010
A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a city on the east side of Russia, has ordered a local internet service provider to block access to YouTube on the basis it “disseminates extreme views”. The Google-owned video site is one of five the Russian court ordered Rosnet to block, seemingly on the basis that one video posted on the site “encouraged ethnic hatred”.
The ISP have so far refused to adhere to the court ruling, which would only apply to the Komsomolsk-on-Amur area, with their top man Alexander Yermakov telling reporters the judge who made the ruling is “incompetent”, adding that he is willing to fight this up to Russia’s Constitutional Court”.
Google Russia’s spokesman, meanwhile, told Reuters: “This [ruling] is an obvious violation of the right to obtain information. Due to just one video clip, which is mentioned in the court’s ruling, the talk is about blocking the entire site which channels a huge stream of information. This is a huge volume of information which may now be unavailable to users in this city”.
