RIP Russia Today?

This morning, while channel hopping on the Sky platform, I noticed the channel sequence 510 - 511 - 512 - 513 had been changed to 510 - 512 - 513. 511 is RT (513 is Al Jazeera). And indeed RT is no longer available on Sky, as per now:

The Russian state-backed television channel RT is set to disappear from Sky TV in the UK within the next 24 hours, irrespective of the outcome of an investigation by the media regulator Ofcom into its coverage of the war in Ukraine.

The plug will be pulled as a result of EU sanctions, which will target the company used to broadcast RT across the continent.

Sky receives its RT broadcast from a satellite operator based in Luxembourg, which will be instructed to remove the news channel formerly known as Russia Today, as soon as the EU sanctions are officially approved on Tuesday night.

RT’s broadcast slot on Sky will initially be blank but the channel will eventually be removed from its programme guide altogether. Representatives of British broadcast platforms Freesat and Freeview were initially unclear as to whether the decision to block the satellite signal would also result in RT vanishing from their platforms.

So the censors have won...

Ofcom is currently investigating RT for 15 potential breaches of the broadcasting code on impartiality in relation to its Ukraine coverage. However, there is unlikely to be an update on this process for several days and any decision on potentially revoking RT’s licence could take longer.

The "broadcasting code on impartiality" is of course no-existent because "impartiality" is a unicorn ('one man's news is another man's noise'). Striving for it is just the 'system's' way of forcing broadcasters/publicists to align themselves with the official, system's official viewpoint.

Funnily enough, Liz Truss, dumbest of the dumb, actually had a useful insight on the matter (but to no avail):

Despite substantial political pressure to ban the channel in the UK, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has warned of the risk of banning RT, which has a small audience in Britain.

She told the House of Commons: “The reality is that if we ban RT in the United Kingdom, that is likely to lead to channels like the BBC being banned in Russia. What we want is the Russian population to hear the truth about what Vladimir Putin is doing, so there’s a very careful judgment to be made.”

... "careful judgement..."