Russian authorities have informed the country’s telecom operators that YouTube will be slowed down to 128 kilobytes a second, the independent Russian media outlet Meduza reported on Aug. 6, citing sources.
Widespread YouTube outages have already been reported across Russia starting earlier in August.
In July, Russian lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said that Russian authorities would deliberately slow YouTube loading speeds by up to 70% beginning the following week.
Khinshtein, the head of the State Duma’s Information Policy Committee, claimed that the move is “not aimed against Russian users, but against the administration of a foreign resource that still believes that it can violate and ignore our legislation with impunity.”
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