YouTube blocked videos for Russian draft dodgers on request from Roskomnadzor

[glimshe]

YouTube must either respect local laws or leave the country... Which means that they should perhaps stop doing business with totalitarian regimes.

[avmich]

Maybe it's better instead to disregard totalitarian regimes' requests?

[seoulmetro]

Regimes like Australia and New Zealand?

Huh?

These two countries heavily censor the internet.

[tibbydudeza]

Do no evil does not seem so simple anymore.

[jprd]

Why is YT still available in Russia?

[observationist]

"Why would Google forego a potential source of revenue."

Things like morality and ethics don't play a part in what these big corporations do. There's only profit and loss. If it's illegal, but they will make more than they lose in fines, they'll take the profit. If it's legal, but loses them money, they won't do it.

They're in Russia because it makes them money. If it didn't make them money, they wouldn't be there. This is the framework our society has created within which corporations operate. We could do better, but probably won't, because fixing things like this require time, resources, and coordinating dozens or even hundreds of competing incentives and thousands of relevant actors.

You can stop using Google products. You can advocate for others to do so. More than that is probably not the most effective use of your time. Besides, in ten years, Google might not be around - they've been notoriously unreliable for anything other than gmail, youtube, and search, and have recently dropped the ball, and to me, look like has-been hacks in the AI space.

[sega_sai]

Russian government would be very happy if it wasn't.