Blogger Dmitry Puchkov (“Goblin”) commented on the deletion of his YouTube channel and the words of Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, who promised to avenge him. Puchkov shared his opinion in a conversation with Russian media.
“Well, when my channel was taken down and banned on YouTube, Dmitry Anatolyevich tweeted, ‘Namesake, we’re going to avenge you’. It caused an explosion in the US, because I couldn’t explain why I was banned , and there, as they saw all this, they immediately transferred <…> it turned out to be awfully funny,” he said.
On August 4, 2022, YouTube removed Dmitry Puchkov’s channel, which supports the Russian military operation in Ukraine. “We removed content from Dmitry Puchkov’s channel and issued a (strike) warning to him for violating our hate speech policy,” explain in the press service of Google, owner of the video hosting.
The company noted that its policy prohibits content “that denies, minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent events.” “This was the channel’s third strike in 90 days, so in accordance with our three-warning policy, Dmitry Puchkov’s channel has been removed,” the news service noted.
Dmitry Medvedev left the following comment on Puchkov’s page on Vkontakte under the news of the channel’s deletion: “Wait, namesake! We will avenge you.”
“The best revenge, as they say, is success. It is necessary to develop national video services so that these video services also have millions of subscribers,” Puchkov told Russian media. – Of course, I’m terribly sorry for the three million subscribers on YouTube. Yet he was going there for 10 years. It’s a shame, just a shame.”
However, according to him, life teaches the following: “caught in the muzzle, fell – get up and go on.” “Where to go? Life is hard. There is no need to wait for something good,” Puchkov concluded.
See the full interview with Puchkov in the next issue of the Legend program.
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