Australia\u2019s satellite operator said the move has been made out of \u201cconcern about the situation in Ukraine\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Australia\u2019s satellite operator, Foxtel, has notified RT on Saturday that it is suspending the channel’s broadcast distribution in Australia as part of its services \u201cin view of concern about the situation in Ukraine<\/em>.\u201d The operator will then further \u201cconsider<\/em>\u201d its rights under the channel license agreement, it added, without elaborating on any potential additional measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foxtel is a satellite operator covering all of Australia\u2019s territory and has its own over-the-top (OTT) server allowing media services to be offered to the audience directly via the internet. It has around 3.8 million clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Thursday, Poland removed RT, along with some other Russian broadcasters, from its cable and satellite networks as well as internet platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every time a government or a certain organization calls for RT to be taken off air or bans its broadcast it only demonstrates \u201cthe fallacy of media freedoms\u201d<\/em> in the nation it represents, RT\u2019s deputy editor-in-chief, Anna Belkina, said in a statement on Saturday, responding to the latest decisions by Australia and Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRT journalists tirelessly work to bring valuable facts and views to an audience of millions around the world,\u201d<\/em> she said, adding that \u201cif ever there were a time to recognize the importance of all fact-gathering news \u2026 it is now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Even before the start of the Russian military operation, London had asked the regulator Ofcom to reconsider RT\u2019s license to operate in the UK, accusing the company of being part of a \u201cglobal disinformation campaign.\u201d <\/em>At that time, Belkina said that Ofcom had for a long time endorsed the channel as a license holder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RT has been facing pressure for quite some time. European satellite TV operator Eutelsat took RT\u2019s German-language channel RT DE off the air shortly after it was launched in December last year under pressure from the German regional media regulator MABB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Australia suspends RT broadcast RT – 26 Feb, 2022 12:27 Australia\u2019s satellite operator said the move has been made out of \u201cconcern about the situation in Ukraine\u201d Australia\u2019s satellite operator, Foxtel, has notified RT on Saturday that it is suspending the channel’s broadcast distribution in Australia as part of its services \u201cin view of concern… Read More »Australians Deemed Too Stupid to Disseminate Information for Themselves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,115,34,7,97,27],"tags":[1006,132,94,116,35,5928,1116,63,270,10,45,37,5927,1460],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/australia-suspends.jpg?fit=540%2C304&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21504,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21497\/revisions\/21504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/propaganda-definition2.jpg?resize=839%2C464&ssl=1\")
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