BY RT INTERNATIONAL
The US tech giant faced a lawsuit after YouTube blocked the account of a Russian entertainment channel
Moscow’s Court of Arbitration has frozen the assets of Google’s Russian subsidiary to the tune of 500 million rubles.
The judge ruled in favor of Russia’s ‘Entertainment Television’, which sued the tech giant after YouTube blocked one of its channels, TNT, according to the Interfax news agency.
The plaintiff demanded that Google restore full access to the TNT channel’s YouTube account or else pay a penalty.
Apart from Google’s Russian subsidiary, American Google LLC as well as Irish Google Ireland Limited and Google Commerce Limited were all named as defendants in the court documents.
