Partial blocking of YouTube resulted in negative comments, including from Israelis
In Russia, the speed of downloading videos on YouTube has dropped sharply. Rostelecom technical support recalled that the provider warned “about the likelihood of technical problems with the download speed of YouTube videos in the near future” back on July 12.
The company blamed the service's slowdown on its owner, Google, which "has not been expanding or updating its local hardware" designed for caching and accelerating data loading since 2022, the correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
Russian State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein said that by the end of the week in the Russian Federation, YouTube download speeds could drop to 40%, and by the end of next week - to 70%.
“The further fate of YouTube in Russia depends solely on itself. If the resource administration does not change its policy and begin to comply with our laws, nothing good awaits him here,” Khinshtein said.
His colleague Oleg Matveychev, in a conversation with Lenta, also named the conditions for restoring video hosting.
“If they return everyone they blocked, all the content and pay large debts from the lost courts, taxes and fines for failure to comply with our laws, be law-abiding, censor for Russophobia, maybe then they will cancel the slowdown,” Matveychev said.
Israeli citizen Ksenia Sobchak does not hide that blocking YouTube would be a serious blow for her, and therefore calls people to protests.
“This is a blow to ordinary people for whom YouTube has long replaced television. Blocking YouTube would be a big mistake for our government. I hope she won't let her.
Only the indignation of users, not bots, but real people, whose moods are naturally monitored somewhere in high offices where decisions are made, only this can convince that this blocking cannot be done,” the Israeli blogger wrote in her tg channel .
“Will non-politicized users find an alternative. Apparently, a lot of work has been done to bring famous shows and creators to Russian venues, but the beauty of YouTube was the volume of varied content: you could find instructions for overhauling an M50 engine or an educational course on French arthouse classics. Spaces cannot be avoided.
Will Russian services withstand the influx of users? If users get the opportunity to bypass blocking, for example, by installing some kind of apk file on their Android TV, then the effectiveness of blocking/slowing down YouTube will be equal to the effectiveness of blocking Instagram* - only the laziest and most inexperienced users will be eliminated,” writes political scientist Mikhail Karyagin .
“I remind everyone that YouTube is a collection of videos of foreign agents - only for political maniacs. And for the people of YouTube, this is a collection of cartoons, with the help of which millions of grandmothers and mothers feed their grandchildren and children. And who vote for Putin. I ask you to be guided by the interests of the people when making decisions. Give Rutub to your grandmothers and grandchildren first. It is necessary to make the root tube tens of times larger in volume,” warns his colleague Sergei Markov.
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