
The government has blocked 78 news channels and 560 URLs on YouTube since last year, union minister of information and broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur told the Lok Sabha in a written reply to an unstarred question on Tuesday.
Manickam Tagore B, Congress MP from Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar, had sought details of the number of YouTube channels blocked by the government and “the incidents which prompted” such decisions.