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YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia. (www.rferl.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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] 4 points 1 month ago

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] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

China is doing pretty okay with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Good point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Let's hope this will lead to Putin's support evaporating.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The government claims it's Google's hardware getting outdated.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] 0 points 1 month ago

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