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President Vladimir V. Putin has repealed the expression freely freedom in Russia since the Soviet era. Now Wartime is aimed at the last Western technological platform that stands in Russia: YouTube.
Mr. Putin has officially banned the US video platform, which is more than 2.5 billion users in the world. The site angered the Russian government, which looked as an uncontrolled gateway in anti-site content. The Russian propaganda channels also acquired YouTube to eliminate videos affected by Russian musicians to West sanctions.
Thus, the Russian users, first of all, in the desktop connection of the desktop, Youtube had an important slowdown. Internet experts said that the opening of the traffic can be explained only by the Russian government by the only Azerbaijani government.
The purposeful slowdown of the service was spread on the Internet, including mobile networks, including mobile networks. Millions of Russells trying to access videos, found very slowly or very pixels to download them.
“This sudden mass descent is 100 percent artificially,” Philipp Dietrich said it is an analyst in the German Foreign Relations Council. “There is no doubt that this is made by human.”
The results of the wide edge against YouTube have been mixed so far, showed that Russia's Internet has been practically very large to break a corner of Russia.
YouTube has been a daily life type for many Russian years of old Soviet movies, everything from old Soviet movies flows to political shows against the creamy. 96 million Russians aged 12 and older than 12 years of age or about 79 percent, about 79 percent, the research team visited the monthly site before the slowdown service.
However, the connection between the Youtube owner and Google has been tense for years. Viral YouTube broadcasts, the late Russian opposition figure turned Alexei A. Navalny into a significant danger for the Kremlin. In a palace built for Mr. Putin, built on Yout 2021, in a palace in a black-sea palace in a palace in the Black Sea, stressed 133 million views in the last four years.
At one level, he worked to choke. On YouTube, Russia's Internet traffic is less than a third because this time is this time, so Public information The main company of the streaming service broadcast by Google. VK, which has a state-run social media network, has a local alternative and traffic to YouTube, known as VK videos.
But the reality is more complicated.
The driver of the technical and savvy Russians continues to access YouTube using virtual personal networks or VPN. These tools are guided by Internet traffic through another country, ie it is not shown in Google's data as Russia's use. They also encrypts users' traffic and protect their identities.
YouTube also proved that there are hundreds of Russian internet providers, some Russians have a series of Russians that can include Youtube videos directly and without VPN.
Political shows filed outside Russia, Russian journalist Dmitry Kolezev saw the Russian journalist Kolzev, who watched the shows through a product called Youspore, said that compared to minimal traffic. In other words, the audience in Russia, because the audience in Russia, especially motivated by the content of the Kremlin, quickly won VPN.
The entertainment content, which is up to the cooking shows of children's cartoons, has seen an important opening in many cases due to Youtube traffic measurements. Viewers of such content are less likely to buy VPNs and will be able to find what they are looking for in Russian flow platforms.
The exact number of Russians using VPNS is unknown. Mikhail Klimarev, the Executive Director of the Digital Rights Group of Internet Defense, now in Europe, estimated that more than half of Russian Internet users or about 60 million people can use and can use.
“People will learn to use VPN according to YouTube and discover how many things on the Internet are on the Internet,” Mr. Klimarev predicted. “It's just a higher quality, just more opportunities and more entries in the content.”
However, the slowdown in the service, at least manages as many Russians as many Russians like VK and Rutube to consume the content they used to watch on YouTube. This is a bifty of the Internet that the Kremlin wanted.
“We call this phenomenon a shredder,” said Anastasia Zhyrmont, Politics Manager for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, now at the entrance to the digital rights group. They said, “They try to break the Internet and build their ecosystem,” he said.
A Russian journalist who is a Russian journalist, who is a Russian journalist, who is a Russian journalist, who has a Russian journalist, who is only concerned about the quality of political-oriented Russians, the state managed by the state for relaxation to relax by moving to a party The Internet will not give a chance in political videos that are critical.
The result, he said that the creators of the video will not “have a kind of information bubble”, which “will not reach the average Russia”.
Already see some bifurcation.
Arthur Dneprovsky said that Russian-speaking children's cartoons, including the Russian-language blue tractor, including the popular “Blue Tractor”, are in a smaller e-mail in YouTube traffic, smaller projects fell to 50 percent for slowdown.
At the same time, he said in the inner video platforms of Russia, especially for the “blue tractor” for the “blue tractor” for the “blue tractor” and the “blue tractor” and subscribers have a problem with Youtube People migrate to Rutube or VK alternatively.
A Russian opposition figure, which broadcasts a famous political YouTube show from Israel, has decreased by 45 percent a year ago from Russia to the show that users sent users from Russia. However, its common spectator numbers remained the same, showed that some viewers in Russia have received VPNS and are in the information from other countries.
“People just continue to watch YouTube using VPNS en Masse and continue to watch YouTube,” Russia does not broadcast videos on Mr Katz and state-run platforms.
Mr Putin's occupation in Ukraine in early 2022, the Kremlin increased significantly with Google. The company told YouTube that the company has blocked more than 1,000 Russian government channels, including more than 5.5 million videos. The advertisements provided by users in Russia on YouTube suspended the service of users on a global scale of employees of the advertisers based on Russia.
Google has rejected the requirements to overcome the content of the Russian government. For example, after the mobilization in September 2022, Russia's communication regulator after the mobilization in Ukraine, he asked Youtube to unpopular mobilization from Google. Google said he agrees to remove only one because the clip advised the use of the poison to escape the floor.
In July, Google, when the Kremlin's chances of the European Union for Premlan Musicians, and removed their channels and videos, asked the Kremlin. The service barrier began soon.
The Russian government also hit Google with increasing fines.
Speaking at the annual call show last month, Mr. Putin, Youtube and Google, who searched for political and music content, accused the US government's proposal by serving political videos.
“If they want to work here,” Mr. Putin, “let them move in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation.”
Mr. Putin also said that last year's violations on YouTube on Google has not served in Russia since the company's market out of the market. Google rejects the technical issues that are responsible for the slowdown
Russian government steps on a long-running campaign against VPN services, which is effective, can further reduce the Russian entrance to YouTube and other Western technological platforms.
For example, Apple, eliminated VPNS from the App Store in Russia last year is an action that angels international human rights groups under the visible pressure from Moscow. (Google Play, the equivalent of Android devices that are more popular in Russia, it did not do it).
Several Russian content creators that support Mr Putin are pleased to ensure that the local youtube algorithm, which support Mr Putin, including the same international levels, monetization capabilities and extensive user base.
Mr Putin's comments on YouTube, a popular Russian-language YouTube Bumaga, Vlad Bumaga'nın came to answer a question.
Originally, Bumaga, VK, including VK, including VK, including VK, which includes VK, which includes VK, including VK, and videos. However, he asked Youtube to stay accessible.
After signing up with VK, Mr Bumaga also loads their videos on Youtube, which continues to win millions of opinions and thousands of Russian. His account claims that it is located in the United States.
Labzina night and Matsnevin oleg Contributing report.