Russia called on Google to stop advertising “illegal mass events”(basically protests) on Youtube.
Reuters:
 Russia’s state communications watchdog has asked Google to stop advertising “illegal mass events” on its YouTube video platform, it said on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of Russians staged what observers called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years on Saturday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature. Multiple YouTube channels broadcast the event live.
The watchdog, Roscomnadzor, said some entities had been buying advertising tools from YouTube, such as push notifications, in order to spread information about illegal mass protests, including those aimed at disrupting elections.
It said Russia would consider a failure by Google to respond to the request as “interference in its sovereign affairs” and “hostile influence (over) and obstruction of democratic elections in Russia”.
If the company does not take measures to prevent events from being promoted on its platforms, Russia reserves the right to respond accordingly, Roscomnadzor said, without giving details.
Over the past five years, Russia has introduced tougher laws requiring search engines to delete some search results, messaging services to share encryption keys with security services, and social networks to store Russian users’ personal data on servers within the country.
A Google spokesperson in Russia declined to comment on Sunday.
This is another example of a country trying to use Google to implement authoritarian programs. Russia does not want any semblance of protest forming and they know that Youtube is a place where views can be expressed and movements begin.
We need to start asking questions about what Google actually is and if they should be held accountable for doing the bidding of dictators.
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