🇺🇸🇺🇦BREAKING! As a Ukrainian, I ask for your help: Zelenskyy, with the tacit approval of Google, YouTube, TikTok, and Meta (Facebook, Instagram) leadership, continues to block his critics!
Zelenskyy continues to impose illegal sanctions and block channels of opposition journalists and bloggers who have no ties to Russia but simply criticize the government.
@YouTube and @tiktok_us continue to enforce the Ukrainian government’s illegal actions, suppressing freedom of speech!
Recently, the U.S. State Department shut down its division combating “foreign disinformation,” which had accused Russia of “disinformation and propaganda.”
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the decision, stating:
“For the past decade, Americans have been vilified, fired, accused, and even imprisoned just for expressing their opinions. The agency actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans it was supposed to serve,” he wrote on X.
Yet, such practices persist in Ukraine, where the “Center for Countering Disinformation under the President of Ukraine” operates.
This Center spread propaganda against Donald Trump and his team. It discredited U.S. National Intelligence Director Gabbard, labeling her a “Russian agent.”
Today, this Center has direct ties with YouTube and TikTok. Look: https://t.co/nH0G4XwIyx
In 2023, my YouTube channel “Myroslav Oleshko” was blocked, and restoration was prohibited; my appeals were ignored. My TikTok accounts were also blocked, and TikTok’s management in Poland and Ireland ignored my requests.
Recently, at Zelensky’s demand, the YouTube channel of opposition MP Oleksandr Dubinsky was blocked.
Today, Zelensky’s Center for Countering Disinformation gleefully announced that YouTube, at their request, blocked channels of Zelensky’s critics, including popular journalist Oleksandr Shelest.
Notably, YouTube and TikTok have not blocked any channels of Russian opposition bloggers who were funded by USAID, despite demands from Russian authorities.
Yet, YouTube, Google, and TikTok comply with the whims of the Ukrainian government.
Ukraine is under a dictatorship today! Critics are arrested, courts are controlled by the government’s orders, and the sanctions Zelensky imposes on his own citizens violate the law and the Constitution.
YouTube (Neal Mohan) and TikTok must stop engaging in censorship. When the government changes in Ukraine, as it did in the U.S., social media executives will be ashamed. There will be a major scandal!
They’ll realize YouTube and TikTok didn’t block propaganda but silenced alternative viewpoints.
Remember how social media banned Trump! Only Elon Musk gave Trump - and today, us Ukrainians - a chance to share our perspective!
YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok comply with the Ukrainian government’s demands to suppress freedom of speech. Meanwhile, X and Telegram refuse Zelensky’s requests to block government critics, including within Ukraine.
Sincerely,
Ukrainian oppositionist, Myroslav Oleshko
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