YouTube has suspended multiple Russian channels, including the state-funded media outlet RT, from

[yaesu]

generating revenue on the video service, Reuters reported.

YouTube said in a statement that it was “pausing a number of channels’ ability to monetize on YouTube, including several Russian channels affiliated with recent sanctions”. It said the move was prompted by “extraordinary circumstances”.

Videos from the affected channels also will come up less often in recommendations, Farshad Shadloo, a spokesman for YouTube, said. He added that RT and several other channels would no longer be accessible in Ukraine due to “a government request.”

[Quixote1818]

1. Yesterday I was getting some Russian channel feeds showing Putin kissing babies

in hospitals and shit like that. I alerted all of them.

[EarlG]

2. The point of RT isn't to make money, it's to spread Kremlin propganda

So demonetizing it without blocking it entirely is an utterly toothless gesture.

[crickets]

7. Thank you.

This is obviously an appeasement gesture by a company that doesn't want to endanger a business model that depends on shit stirrers. It's so frustrating.

[blogslug]

3. I was just going to post this link

https://www.reuters.com/technology/youtube-blocks-rt-other-russian-channels-generating-revenue-2022-02-26/

But, yeah. Youtube needs to kick them off their platform entirely.

[rockfordfile]

4. Twitch needs to do the same. There un-American pos doing the same

[world wide wally]

5. There goes Tucker's ratings

[mitch96]

6. I wonder if the Cable companies will do the same...nt