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Navalny allies accuse YouTube, Telegram of censorship in Russian election

September 20, 2021
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MOSCOW, Russia – Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s allies accused YouTube and Telegram of censorship on Saturday (Sept 18) after the video platform and messaging app restricted access to their anti-government voting recommendations for Russia’s parliamentary election.

Navalny’s allies already accused Alphabet’s Google and Apple of buckling under Kremlin pressure on Friday after the companies removed an app from their stores that the activists had hoped to use against the ruling party at the election.

Voting began on Friday and runs until late on Sunday.

The app gives detailed recommendations on who to vote for in an effort to challenge the party that backs President Vladimir Putin. It is one of the few levers Navalny’s allies have left after a sweeping crackdown this year.

Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov, who has carved out a libertarian image and resisted past censorship, said the platform would block election campaign services, including one used by Navalny’s allies to give voter recommendations.

He said the decision had been taken because of a Russian ban on campaigning once polls are open, which he considered legitimate and is similar to bans in many other countries.

Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh condemned the move.

In his statement, Durov said Google and Apple’s restrictions of the Navalny app had set a dangerous precedent and meant Telegram, which is widely used in Russia, was more vulnerable to government pressure.

He said Telegram depends on Apple and Google to operate because of their dominant position in the mobile operating system market and his platform would not have been able to resist a Russian ban from 2018 to 2020 without them.

Russia tried to block Telegram in April 2018 but lifted the ban more than two years later after ostensibly failing to block it.

“The app block by Apple and Google creates a dangerous precedent that will affect freedom of expression in Russia and the whole world,” Durov said in a post on Telegram.

This article was first published in Asia One . All contents and images are copyright to their respective owners and sources.

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