Blocking YouTube was tested on Omsk users of Rostelecom
The beginning of the story, I suppose, was laid by the Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, who wrote in his Twitter about a possible blocking of YouTube in November . But they did not wait for November.
On September 18, at about five o'clock in the evening Moscow time, reports of blocked access to youtube.com began to be received from Rostelecom users in Omsk, and Interfax, whose correspondent living in Omsk was just a subscriber of Rostelecom, managed to get a comment from tech support:
“Restricting access to the resource probably occurred on the recommendation of Roskomnadzor and on the basis of a warning to the communications service operators of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Russia about the need to restrict access to sites containing extremist materials . ” Source of
Then the Prime agency received from the director of public relations of Rostelecom Kira Kiryukhina a refutation:
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"Rostelecom did not restrict access to the YouTube site anywhere in the country . " Source of
By this time, YouTube has already begun to work, but the story has not yet ended - today on the Rostelecom website there was a message that the blocking did take place on the basis of a letter from the Omsk Region Prosecutor’s Office .
Does the prosecutor's office really have the right to order the provider to block access to the resource, whose material has not even been declared extremist by the court? If it does, then why did Rostelecom open up access after only 7 hours after blocking? And why only in Omsk, the rest of the citizens do not need to be protected from terrible extremism?
UPD
New details: The press service of the prosecutor's office of the Omsk region said that they demanded to restrict access only to the video itself, but not to the whole YouTube. Source of
On September 18, at about five o'clock in the evening Moscow time, reports of blocked access to youtube.com began to be received from Rostelecom users in Omsk, and Interfax, whose correspondent living in Omsk was just a subscriber of Rostelecom, managed to get a comment from tech support:
“Restricting access to the resource probably occurred on the recommendation of Roskomnadzor and on the basis of a warning to the communications service operators of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Russia about the need to restrict access to sites containing extremist materials . ” Source of
Then the Prime agency received from the director of public relations of Rostelecom Kira Kiryukhina a refutation:
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"Rostelecom did not restrict access to the YouTube site anywhere in the country . " Source of
By this time, YouTube has already begun to work, but the story has not yet ended - today on the Rostelecom website there was a message that the blocking did take place on the basis of a letter from the Omsk Region Prosecutor’s Office .
Does the prosecutor's office really have the right to order the provider to block access to the resource, whose material has not even been declared extremist by the court? If it does, then why did Rostelecom open up access after only 7 hours after blocking? And why only in Omsk, the rest of the citizens do not need to be protected from terrible extremism?
UPD
New details: The press service of the prosecutor's office of the Omsk region said that they demanded to restrict access only to the video itself, but not to the whole YouTube. Source of
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/151759/
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