RT’s main YouTube channel was suspended for about eight hours. YouTube ascribed the temporary blackout to a “technical mistake.” During the temporary suspension, anyone who attempted to access RT’s main YouTube channel was greeted with a startling message: “This channel has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content.” In 2007, RT (formerly Russia Today) became the first Russian media outlet to open its channel on YouTube. Now RT is the most popular news broadcaster present on YouTube, having racked up about 700 million views and 275 thousand subscribers since the channel’s inception. The blackout sparked frenzy among RT viewers. Viewers speculated that everything from censorship to a hacker attack could have been behind the incident. Some of them said this is “ACTA in action”, while others focused on the timing, which coincided with an NYPD crackdown on an OWS protest in New York that was being covered by the channel.
http://rt.com/news/blackout-rt-youtube-suspended-847/
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