TV and radio company “Crimea” is considering filing a lawsuit against an American video hosting of YouTube that deleted the account of the TV channel “Crimea 24”. About this “RG” said the General producer of Autonomous non-profit organization “broadcasting company “Crimea” Oleg Kryuchkov.
Google, which owns YouTube, removed all content “Crimea 24” after three years of successful cooperation. The broadcasting company has addressed for explanations in service of the company and received a reply that the account has been deleted “for violating the YouTube terms of use”.
– We explained that our account, which was 30 thousand subscribers and over 19 million views, is restored. The vaunted Western freedom of speech in action – praised the event Oleg Kryuchkov. – Removed and in parallel a number of other Russian accounts. So we just stop using YouTube as a platform for posting content. Now we are considering filing a lawsuit against YouTube, owned by American company Google.
Now the broadcasting company is working to transfer their videos on their own servers on the site “Crimea 24” and will continue to work only with domestic video-sharing websites.
– We believe it is very symptomatic that the account is deleted immediately after the broadcast, our channel 18 may mourning events dedicated to the anniversary of deportation of the Crimean Tatar people, – said G. Kryuchkov. We conducted a live broadcast of laying flowers to the monument “Rebirth” and the action “Candle of memory”, from which it was evident, as all the peoples of the Crimea celebrate this tragic date.
On TV said that in recent times from the spontaneous decisions of the American IT giant suffer from many Russian TV channels, information portals and bloggers. And everytime his actions, the video explains quite a vague formulation “for violation of the YouTube terms of use”, while the company itself doesn’t seem to like to follow the rules.
at the same time about removing their accounts without explanation, told the news Agency Anna news News Front and that spetsializiruyutsya on the lighting situation beyond the control of Kiev LNR and DND.
Earlier it became known that the Moscow city court will consider the claim on the complete blocking of YouTube in Russia.
