Yoooo peertube in russia???
Russia has rutube and landed video ( i think)
Don’t forget VK Video
Thought vk was a twitter/instagram thingy
They’ve been branching out into video, even added a dedicated video tab to the main ui
I thought it was more like Facebook.
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.
this is terrible news for right wing reactionary youtube channels.
It’s just so strange to read how Americans blame Putin for everything the rest of the world blames their government for.
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.
Sure, champion, your attention saved my life today. Let me get back to my trolling, spying, forced and commie stuff.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty is straight up State department propaganda.
While this is somewhat true (state funded, but with some level of independence), your statement doesn’t jive with reality.
I follow RFE/RL in both English and several other languages. Their reporting is far better than many multi-billion dollar private news companies in the West.
And it’s not a minor difference either, the western news companies are not even close.
What an absurd response. This is akin to saying RT isn’t Russian state propaganda.
RT and RFE/RF are state media, but there is a difference. The former does not enjoy freedom and the latter does because of its firewall that prevents political interference.
Although the Trump administration tried to remove firewalls and introduce its inference that could have been harmful during that period.
I think you mean it’s designed to prevent partisan interference. RFE/RL’s purpose is to support US foreign policy which makes it inherently political. It is undeniably a propaganda outlet and therefore comparable in function to RT. You may trust American propaganda over Russian propaganda but that doesn’t mean the former is not propaganda.
Just a question, what do you know about RFE/RL?
Do you follow any of their news program series?
Do you speak any other languageslioe Ukrainian, Belarusian or Georgian?
I do check out RFE/RL and its sister outlets from time to time. It’s pretty obvious that their agenda aligns 1 for 1 with American foreign policy objectives. To be fair though, the US wouldn’t fund RFE/RL if it didn’t effectively dupe people into believing it was an unbiased source.
Is there anything else that you noticed beyond “aligns with US foreign policy objectives”.
Did you only read it in English? What other language services from them did you read.
lemmy.ml is straight up lemmygrad / hexbear Tankie propaganda.
I’m sure everything Russia China and NK do WRONG is just *propaganda, too.
Isn’t that right .ml user?
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.
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?
And I really liked the Russian Youtubers… Nonetheless, it’s a different kind of censorship and it might just lead to more propaganda in the end…
I’m going to miss the one Russian I follow. Maybe this will help another alternative platform take its place.
Cant Russians make money from yt due to that Ukraine thing
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.
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.
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.
turkey re(?)banned roblox
Why has it been accessible to begin with? $$$
There hasn’t been any monetization since shortly after the invasion started. If I have to guess, Google was just footing the bills so they don’t lose presence to some local player when it’s all over.
I’m actually more curious as to who finally pulled the plug, Google, or the Russian government; and why finally now. Article made it seem like the Russian govt wanted to violate net neutrality and slow down YT’s traffic, but makes no mentioning of which party ultimately took the service down.
It’s the russian government. There have been rumors that they are planning to shut down YT for good in the last few months.
damn. how would russians watch unwanted ads now?
Prime, Netflix, Hulu, any news website, pornhub, etc…
AFAIK they didn’t have to watch ads since the sanctions took effect, because Google wasn’t allowed to monetize them.
Wow. Can’t wait for this empire to sanction itself.
Good.
Because fuck ‘em, that’s why!
