{"id":14575,"date":"2018-09-10T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14575"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:26:00","slug":"youtube-shuts-down-pro-syrian-government-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14575","title":{"rendered":"YouTube shuts down pro-Syrian government channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"83.8494077834\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">YouTube has suspended the accounts of at least three media outlets run by the Syrian government, weeks after a report claimed the channels were violating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a> sanctions and generating revenue from ads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The video streaming giant appeared to suspend the accounts of Syria&#8217;s public international news organisation, SANA, the Ministry of Defence and the Syrian Presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">All three accounts appeared on Monday with a message, which read: &#8220;This account has been terminated due to a legal complaint,&#8221; or &#8220;This account has been terminated for a violation of YouTube&#8217;s Terms of Service.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Damascus-based Sana TV&#8217;s channel also appeared to be taken down, with a message reading: &#8220;This page isn&#8217;t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move comes just weeks after online news website TomoNews revealed the government-run accounts were generating advertising revenue in violation of US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>US sanctions prohibit American companies from providing services to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/syria.html\">Syria<\/a> without obtaining a licence from the Treasury Department, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Syria is in the middle of bloody <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/05\/syria-civil-war-explained-160505084119966.html\">civil war<\/a>\u00a0that has raged since 2011 and claimed more than 500,000 lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has suspended the accounts of at least three media outlets run by the Syrian government, weeks after a report claimed the channels were violating US sanctions and generating revenue from ads. The video streaming giant appeared to suspend the accounts of Syria&#8217;s public international news organisation, SANA, the Ministry of Defence and the Syrian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}