The Russian Federation will reduce the speed of YouTube on desktop computers by 70% in response to the blocking of Russian channels by the video hosting service.
The decision was announced today by the chairman of the Duma's parliamentary committee on information policy, Aleksandr Jinshtein.
"Before the end of this week, the download speed of YouTube on desktop computers may be reduced by 40%, and by next weekend by 70%," he wrote on the Telegram social network.
The measure, he specified, "will only affect desktop computers and not mobile communications."
The deputy added: "The 'degradation' of YouTube is a measure that we were forced to take, which is not directed against Russian users, but against the administration of this foreign resource, which continues to believe that it can violate and ignore our laws with impunity."
He also said that the decision to implement this measure in the summer was "not by chance", since most users are on holiday and use the internet more on their mobile devices.
Jinshtein assured that "all this is a consequence of the service's anti-Russian policy, which consequently eliminates the channels of our public figures [bloggers, journalists, artists] whose positions differ from the Western point of view".
The Russian authorities have restricted or banned several Western social networks. After the start of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops, Moscow's leaders declared Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, to be "extremist" and blocked these social networks.
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