• Mwa
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      Russia has rutube and yandex video ( i think)

      • @[email protected]
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        They’re crap. People will be and are looking for ways to evade restrictions.

        Right now, they’re only limiting speed with certain providers in certain locations. There are at least three ways that I know of to avoid it.

        The thing is, I don’t know how far they’ll take it. Blocking YouTube is a major political risk. Practically, everybody uses it for one reason or another. So, unlike their “special military operation,” this (as mercantile as it sounds) will potentially have a bigger impact on everybody’s lives. But you really can never be sure with our mafia-in-charge anymore.

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    Wasn’t Russia throttling YouTube bandwidth before hand to prepare for this? Along with banning cell phones for their soldiers, I guess they’re going for complete media blackout and control.

    Edit: I guess they announced 70% slowdown a couple weeks ago and just went straight to full shutdown.

    • HobbitFoot
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      1211 months ago

      Banning cell phones for soldiers on the front line has become common since the phone transmissions are used as bombing targets.

      However, the blackout of YouTube for the civilian populace is mainly for control purposes, especially as Ukraine is fairly active on YouTube.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    Hold on! How about Disney?

    But seriously, before anyone puts a hole in putins shit basket, can you please ask him how he got the YouTube and Google to stop?

    Maybe we could do the same!? We do have Mexico, should we invade Mexico? I’m fine with it, I was born there. I’m sure many others would agree conmigo.

    Or maybe it’s a secret Mafia connection?

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s just so strange to read how Americans blame Putin for everything almost the rest of the world (demographically speaking) blames their government for.

    • Echo Dot
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      2211 months ago

      Obvious Russian troll is obvious.

      Come on you can do better than this. You’r not even being entertainingly bad.

      You need to improve or else you will fall out of a window.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        Sure, champion, your attention saved my life today. Let me get back to my trolling, spying, forced and commie stuff.

  • Jin
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    1311 months ago

    Thought it has already banned? Thought they had the same view as Chinese government to limited information so they can better brainwash people in Russia with propaganda.

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    And I really liked the Russian Youtubers… Nonetheless, it’s a different kind of censorship and it might just lead to more propaganda…

  • Mwa
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    Cant Russians make money from yt due to that Ukraine thing

    • @[email protected]
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      Not unless you’re making videos from abroad.

      YouTube doesn’t serve ads when viewed from Russia anymore, so there is no revenue from this audience. And you can’t take money out from within Russia due to sanctions.

      Russian YouTubers are pretty much screwed and have to re-locate. The only other option is earning from product placements.

  • @[email protected]
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    2411 months ago

    Is this the Russian Government censoring them, or is YouTube just pulling out because the sanctions mean they can’t run ads to Russian IPs?

    • @[email protected]
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      The government claims it’s Google’s hardware getting outdated. Google says that’s bs.

      I think that it’s convenient how they’re telling that to us right before throttling YouTube only with certain providers (and seems to be with only certain regions as well).

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        YouTube was running like garbage for me in Texas earlier today while everything else was fine. Are they having issues in general?

    • @[email protected]
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      the biggest ISP in Russia, rostelecom, started throttling youtube by 80% last month and is planning a full blocking. It’s a curious choice though… even the hardest most Z people are not happy about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        It is a double-edged sword, because it would leave them blind to certain news without propaganda. Which could have direct and indirect consequences.

        • @[email protected]
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          there is a browser extension that loads websites without middleman interference, a lot of people are using that. apparently it even unblocks twitter and some other sites.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            China has ten times more people than Russia, they have a big enough market to support a full fledged alternative. Russia does not

  • The Quuuuuill
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    That’s what you get. Ukraine doesn’t have access to YouTube either thanks to the rolling blackouts. So… I guess cry more? Or if you’re Russian and reading this, and you want change for your country: realize you are many, they are few, and the few they have aren’t currently as strong as they were before your country illegally invaded Ukraine. It won’t be easy but maybe you and your brethren can secure a safer future for your children, those children, and all the children you will never meet, by rising up against your oppressors