Comment on YouTube reportedly blocks anti-war videos in Russia at the Kremlin’s request

• 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

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  • 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.

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    • bl4kers@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.

      Maybe in theory but not in practice. See: illegal dumping, tax evasion, labor violations, and many other things

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