YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia.

ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.world – 405 points –
YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia
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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?

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.

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

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.

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The government claims it's Google's hardware getting outdated.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).

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

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