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Russian authorities are taking actions which is throttling, or even stopping operation, of the Western censorship matrix platform Youtube.
The US video sharing platform YouTube has stopped playing high quality videos in almost all desktop browsers in Russia, reports Russian state news agency TASS.
Earlier, Russian telecommunications operator Rostelecom informed about technical issues in the operation of equipment owned by Google and used on an operator’s network infrastructure, as well as in traffic exchange between telecom operators, which may affect the YouTube traffic in Russia, added TASS.
YouTube was cautioned about potential technical issues with traffic speed on July 12, Rostelecom said, adding that Google (owner of the YouTube video sharing platform) was to be blamed for technical problems, as in 2022 the tech giant had washed its hands of expanding and renovating its equipment in Russia, which is used for backing up the Google Global Cache server (GGC, which facilitates user access to Google services).
After abandoning plans to block popular Western internet services, the Russian authorities have now moved to trying to slow them down. This week it emerged that YouTube was being throttled — a platform where millions of Russians watch reports and interviews from independent journalists undermining the Kremlin’s case for its war in Ukraine. Whatsapp, too, has been targeted as officials say the messenger is used by terrorist groups. The goal is to make the services cumbersome and annoying, to frustrate Russians to switch into home-grown alternatives that Moscow has under tighter control, reported Russian independent news outlet The Bell earlier this month.
This week Rostelecom, one of the country’s leading comms providers, unexpectedly announced that the quality of YouTube in Russia would deteriorate. It said users would notice longer download times and lower image quality. The company cited an overload of GGC as a reason. Although the explanation seems plausible, the issue has been known for a long time, as Google reportedly started notifying Russian internet providers in May 2022 that it was disconnecting them from the GGC network, added The Bell.
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