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YouTube goes down in Russia amid reports of blocking Google services, Android, and iOS

According to reports, YouTube is fully down in Russia, while the country also apparently plans to block Google services and Android.

A widespread outage of YouTube in Russia is preventing users from accessing the world’s largest video platform, and it comes amid rumors that the country intends to block Android and Google services. However that, came shortly after Russian lawmakers directly warned that YouTube speeds could be slowed by as much as 70% as a “necessary step” against YouTube as the platform “still believes it can violate and ignore our legislation without punishment.” Alexander Khinshtein, head of a parliamentary committee on information policy, who previously warned of the slowdown has since blamed it on a failure on Google’s part to invest in Russian infrastructure, which YouTube rejected. Notably, this is also happening as United24Media, a Ukrainian news outlet, reports that Russian authorities are planning to block Google services, along with Android and Apple’s iOS, within Russia.

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