JUST IN - YouTube has permanently deleted two of Russia Today's German-language channels with over 600,000 subscribers, citing "medical misinformation".
JUST IN -
Telegram shuts down an Italian and a German public channel for "inciting harm to medical doctors and other public officials," according to creator Pavel Durov.
Durov's Channel
On Telegram, people can publicly express reasonable concerns about vaccines. Large Telegram channels are one of the few remaining places on the Internet where users can raise their voice against various anti-Covid measures, which they feel have restricted their rights.
What Telegram does not allow, however, is the distribution of calls for violence via public channels. Inciting violence has been prohibited by the Terms of Service (
https://telegram.org/tos) of Telegram since 2015, so we have to take action every time this line is crossed. Yesterday we had to shut down (
https://t.me/durovschat/1322711) an Italian channel "stopdittatura", which incited subscribers to harm medical doctors and other public officials related to vaccinations. Unfortunately, the channel admins failed to act even after our team warned them about the violation.
We also had to block a similar German public channel "menschenreise_diskussion", which, just like "stopdittatura", had over 40,000 subscribers and actively incited violence against doctors. Such channels violate Telegram's rules, the rules of Apple and Google and also local laws.