Comment on YouTube reportedly blocks anti-war videos in Russia at the Kremlin’s request
Jaysyn@kbin.social 5 weeks ago
It's way past time to break Alphabet up into smaller companies.
Comment on YouTube reportedly blocks anti-war videos in Russia at the Kremlin’s request
Jaysyn@kbin.social 5 weeks ago
It's way past time to break Alphabet up into smaller companies.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
The independent YouTube would have done the same really.
bl4kers@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
The idea of breaking up a company is to make the space more competitive. Theoretically if YouTube had a proper competitor, then the decision to honor Kremlin requests would be more complicated, since it could lead to a loss of market share
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Not at all: any company that wants to operate in a given country, has to follow that country’s laws, whether they like them or not.
Whichever company were to disobey the Kremlin, would lose all Russian market share… and perhaps more importantly, all ability to offer Russian citizens access to non-Russian news and points of view.
bl4kers@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Maybe in theory but not in practice. See: illegal dumping, tax evasion, labor violations, and many other things