YouTube bans Press TV's new page
YouTube has disabled Press TV's new account under pressure from the Israeli-American Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that ordered the video-sharing site to end the Iranian channel's live broadcast. ● "On August 20, YouTube's parent company Google deactivated Press TV's new account weeks after disabling the channel's official page," said Press TV Newsroom Director Hamid Reza Emadi. "YouTube broadcasts a variety of obscene images and provides a platform for terrorists to propagate their dangerous ideologies, but it cannot tolerate the broadcast of an alternative media channel from Iran," he said, adding that YouTube is doing what the ADL is ordering it to do. "ADL has contacted YouTube regarding concerns about Press TV," reads an article on ADL's official website, further noting that the station's "broadcast on Youtube comes at the a time when the United States, the European Union and others in the international community are seeking to isolate Iran."