Russian court ruling bans YouTube

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    29 July 2010

    A court in Russia's Far East has banned access to YouTube, accusing the video sharing site of hosting extremist ideology.
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    A court in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur obliged the local Internet provider Rosnet to limit access to five websites, which included YouTube, Lenta.ru reported.

    The video-hosting site has come under fire for a video titled Russia for Russians which, according to judges, contains extremist elements.

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    Other banned websites had electronic versions of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf, branded extremist and prohibited in Russia.

    According to Rosnet owner Aleksandr Ermakov, the court decision is absurd.