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YouTube has begun blocking opposition content at the request of the Russian authorities (www.agents.media)
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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 19 points 6 months ago

Google has not responded to the enquiries, but has not blocked anything either back then

But this time they did. I would speculate they blocked human rights content in return for the promise of YouTube not being blocked in Russia. I would expect YouTube to be blocked anyway, sooner or later