Dmitry Peskov responded to this news and hastened to make sure that it was not about “blocking”, but about “equipment problems.”
Video hosting on YouTube will be completely blocked in Russia as early as September this year. This was reported by the Russian publication Gazeta.Ru citing a source close to the presidential administration.
During July-August there will be some kind of breakdown, that is, in some regions the working conditions of YouTube will worsen. In some it slows down, in others “tweak” (from the word “lag” – a delay in the operation of a computer application, – ed.) site where the application “drops”. And in September the lockdown will start,” the source said.
This information was confirmed by a source at a company that collects information for law enforcement agencies.
edition jellyfish, positioning itself as the opposition, announced a deliberate blocking of the service. According to his source, the message about “technical problems with the operation of the equipment” was an attempt to “shift responsibility.”
At the same time, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that “the Russian Federation does not plan to limit access to YouTube, we are talking about equipment problems.”
“No, there are no such plans,” he told reporters, answering questions.
The Kremlin spokesman says that “we are talking about a problem with equipment that has not been updated for more than two years.”
“There are no other explanations here,” convinced Peskov.
Source: korrespondent
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