Posted on 02/15/2018 12:48:53 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
YouTube and Instagram face ban in Russia unless they remove videos of oligarch Oleg Deripaska and deputy prime minister ‘relaxing on a yacht with an escort and discussing 'bad relations with America'
Billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko were reportedly filmed by an escort on Deripaska's private yacht in 2016, which the Russian opposition, led by Alexei Navalny, claim is evidence of corruption and bribery.
In one video, the two men can be heard referring to 'bad relations with America' and 'Nuland', referring to Victoria Nuland, the then Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs in the Obama administration.
A Russian court has now ruled that the videos and images must be removed from the social media platforms, because they invade Deripaska's privacy.
Both YouTube and Instagram have yet to respond to the ruling.
As it is not possible for internet providers to block specific pages on Instagram and YouTube, the entire sites may be blacklisted in Russia, a spokesperson for the Russian Association for Electronic Communications told the BBC.
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There are actually good things to be found on both. It depends on what you choose to focus on.
Instagram tends toward being the world’s largest collection of narcissists.
The well known nice looking women on there, if you nose around you pretty quickly come to the conclusion, who the heck would want to be saddled with any of those losers.
Hey some of them are killing it financially. I don’t guage my appreciation of someone by how much money they have.
You couldn’t pay me to live with some of those people.
Lest anyone get the wrong idea, some of the guys are there are just as bad as this segment of women.
Some of the postings are very clever. Some are quite informative. I’ve started putting links to information things in my note area on my iPhone.
Title:
Link...
It’s quite handy for helping remember some great ideas.
There are also a number of places that have quirky useful hints on things to eat, crafts, or quick fixes. These things are productive.
I just repaired one of my computers using a YouTube video as a guide. It worked great.
Any topic you want, you can find on YouTube or even Instagram. Very cool.
I used to lament all the information lost at the sacking of the Library of Alexandra. Now we have something so much better. It’s a global collective of information. I still lament the loss of the information at Alexandra, the antiquities...
This is the kind of thing we'd have if Mrs. Bill Clinton had been elected, and only the beginning.
Just do it for the good of the nation anyway. I often wish we would.
They should definitely ban that Instagram-face.
LoL i understand...but in authoritarian countries, its the only hope for free exchange and spread of ideas.
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