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YouTube has begun blocking opposition content at the request of the Russian authorities (www.agents.media)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 97 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"Do no evil" really never had a chance, did it?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Following Google’s restructure as a subsidiary of Alphabet, “Don’t be evil” was removed as their motto in 2018.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They were literally like, “Fuck that. Let’s do evil.”

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Good: Less money now, maybe better long term reputation and more sustainable business.

Evil: More money now, better quarterly report this quarter. Who gives a fuck about the long term.

The choice was obvious from the start. Sigh...

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Pure Evil: more money now, and all the money later from crushing competition and taking over the government

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Money sucks.

[–] Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People suck.
Removing money doesn't stop people from being assholes.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 6 months ago

Then again, greed and power definitely corrupts people. But if you mean all people have that potential, then yea.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Ironically it aligned pretty closely with changing their decision to not engage in this very behavior in China.

[–] Mikufan@ani.social 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Youtube moment... Man they don't have a spine, they are just greedy bastards.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

A minute and a half of unskippable ads, 5 minutes of Russian propaganda, a minute and a half of unskippable ads...

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

Further validation for me to never pay for stupid premium. Fuck Google

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I bet their reasoning is they don't want to get involved in local "politics" but the idiots don't realize they were involved as soon as they started hosting there. Really what they're doing right now is promoting fascism and helping to prop up putin's regime by ensuring conscript dodging information isn't shared. Fucking bastards.

[–] 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

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

they go wherever there is more money

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Was a time long ago when googles ethics tenet involved doing no evil.

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

Boycott google!

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Didn't they refuse to do this in China?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Back when they had a shred of ethics left. But then they decided they like money more than their motto, changed their motto, and yielded to China.

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

They need a clear warning like this for all countries

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 6 months ago

@LaFinlandia Damn, I hope this is just in Russia at least...

We do need decentralized platforms to avoid this, but managing them by the said outlets might prove too hard for them...