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

submitted 4 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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@thelemmy.club 12 points 4 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.