RT’s main YouTube channel was suspended for about eight hours,
returning online about 2 p.m. Moscow time (10:00 GMT). YouTube chalks up
the temporary blackout to a “technical mistake.”



During the temporary suspension, anyone who attempted to access RT’s main YouTube channel was greeted with a startling message:

“This channel has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations
of YouTube’s policy against spam, scans, and commercially deceptive
content.”


During the temporary blackout, all of the content on our main YouTube channel was inaccessible.
RT’s YouTube account manager has confirmed it was the YouTube team's mistake, and they have since apologized for the incident.
RT’s web promotion chief particularly stressed RT has not violated YouTube’s terms of service in any way, shape or form.

“There have been no copyright or community guideline violations on our part which could result in this kind of measures,” he said.

RT is the most popular of all the news broadcasters present on YouTube,
having racked up about 700 million views and 275 thousand subscribers
since the channel’s inception.RT has a long-running relationship
with YouTube and Google, and its channels are part of YouTube's Premium
Partnership program.

This is the first such incident in the history of
our close cooperation.In 2007, RT became the first Russian media
outlet to open its channel on YouTube. In 2009, RT pioneered the use of
YouTube's Content ID program in Russia.YouTube’s director of video partnerships Patrick Walker had previously lauded his company’s relationship with RT.

"RT is our trump card, one of the, if not the biggest news provider on YouTube worldwide," he told the MIPCOM 2011 conference.

The blackout sparked frenzy among RT viewers around the world attempting to
access the channel and provoked speculation it had been intentionally
taken down.
Viewers speculated that everything from censorship to a hacker attack could have been behind the incident. Some of them said this is “ACTA in action”, while others focused on the timing, which incidentally coincided with an NYPD crackdown on an OWS protest in New York which was being covered by the channel.



Viewers saw the image (below) for some 8 hours.

Source: http://rt.com/news/blackout-rt-youtube-suspended-847/