A U.S.-based Russian-language blogger says Google is threatening to delete one of his YouTube posts after Russia\u2019s federal censor flagged it as prohibited content and a Russian court added it to Russia\u2019s Internet blacklist. Court records from late November 2021 confirm that a judge in Vladivostok granted a request by Russia\u2019s media regulator Roskomnadzor to ban a video uploaded to YouTube on June 11, 2019, by a man named Felix Glyukman because the content supposedly violates Russia\u2019s law against \u201cgay propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n
The video, titled \u201cHow Did I Realize That I\u2019m Gay?\u201d was added to Russia\u2019s Internet blacklist on November 26, 2021.<\/p>\n
On January 4, 2022, Glyukman revealed in a Facebook post that Google notified him of Roskomnadzor\u2019s request, saying that the agency claims his June 2019 video \u201cviolates the Russian Law #149-FZ on information technology and information protection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you do not remove the content, Google may be required to block it,\u201d the message concludes, according to Glyukman\u2019s Facebook post.<\/p>\n
Google representatives did not immediately respond to Meduza about the warning sent to Glyukman.<\/p>\n
Felix Glyukman says he hasn\u2019t lived in Russia since February 2017. \u201cThe taxes on the income I earned from my channel I paid in the United States, and I recorded the video itself while in Miami,\u201d he explained on Facebook, asking, \u201cSo why the fuck should I care at all about Russia\u2019s moronic laws?\u201d<\/p>\n