nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221209-121607-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221209s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221209-121607-0 doi eng 342 23 Golunova, Valentina Author aut No Rainbow without Rain? - How the Crackdown on the Exiled Russian TV Channel ‘TV Rain’ in Latvia Exposes Weaknesses of EU Media and Internet Law Golunova, Valentina Verfassungsblog 2022-12-09 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 6 December 2022, Latvian National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) revoked the broadcasting licence of the independent Russian TV channel ‘TV Rain’. The measures taken against TV Rain in Latvia raise intricate legal questions from an EU law point of view: Is the crackdown on the anti-war Russian TV channel compatible with EU-wide rules on audiovisual media? Can the Latvian government lawfully request YouTube to make TV rain’s channel inaccessible in Latvia? This blogpost argues that EU law is powerless when confronted with possibly unjustified national restrictions against media outlets and their growing spillover into the Internet sphere. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU Law Freedom of Broadcast latvia Media Regulation YouTube Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/no-rainbow-without-rain/ raw object