Use peertube?
YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong
Submitted 5 months ago by Hirom@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/business/youtube-glory-to-hong-kong.html
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onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 months ago
Hirom@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I wonder if that’d work, or if the Great Firewall of China already blocks it in Hong Kong
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
With Invidious, it would have to block every single accessible instance for that to work. You can proxy the video through the instance to avoid censorship.
drwho@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Anybody have a VPN link into HK? It’d be easy to find out.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 months ago
tbh, I know little about the capabilities of the Great Firewall. Maybe it already is possible to circumvent it with a VPN or an anonymity network like I2P or TOR. Also don’t know if they block per IP or in blocks. Possibly hosting the peertube instance on public cloud infra would make it difficult to block if the IP changed at certain intervals.
Hosting peertube could however provide dissenters with more options than youtube.
Norgur@kbin.social 5 months ago
I don't get the premise of posts like that. We scold Google and other corps for not following the laws they are supposed to follow (data protection for example).and then we scold them for daring to follow lawmakers, when we don't like the laws they follow. Which is it?
Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 months ago
I think the point is to scold Google for the harm they cause or fail to prevent. When the law is written so as to genuinely prevent harm (data protection, for ex) then I will scold those who don’t follow it. When the law is written so as to be ineffective at best and harmful at worst, I will scold those who do follow it.
The point isn’t to be consistent with regards to the law, as the law itself is not always either consistent nor “good”.
… unless it is me that isn’t understanding your own comment?
Norgur@kbin.social 5 months ago
So we want Google and such to ignore laws when we think they should be ignored? Who decides which is which then?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
If the nazis are in power and the law says you have to obey the nazis, is it morally right to obey the nazis?
520@kbin.social 5 months ago
It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.
Mind you, I wish we were that level of strict when it came to our data privacy laws.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 months ago
It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.
Which does not change the fact that Google does it. So the reason why Google supports China and their anti Human Rights laws is, because of money. That’s what we criticize.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 5 months ago
As it is now, only people who read about it or live there and try to find the song will ever even know about the block. If Google refused and was kicked out of Hong Kong, just about every single citizen would notice and the government would have to explain precisely why they decided to ban all Google services over a song about freedom. I don’t think the people in charge would last long if that happened, considering how integral Google’s services are to many people’s lives.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
It doesn’t make sense to expect any kind of morality from an evil system. Google is just a mindless legal entity seeking rents/profits while the profiteers try to avoid state violence. It’s like getting mad as a leech for being a leech.
Hirom@beehaw.org 5 months ago
They had a choice between complying to censorship, or refusing to play along and if necessary stop doing business in Hong Kong.
In the past, Google Search got out of China for the same reason.
dean@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I think the reason people are mad is less about “google please follow the law” and more about “google please do the right thing”
Kissaki@beehaw.org 5 months ago
The post title and teaser text make a neutral statement.
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YouTube said on Tuesday that it would comply with a court order to block users in Hong Kong from viewing a popular democracy anthem, raising concerns about free speech and highlighting the increasing fraught environment for tech companies operating in the Chinese territory. “We are disappointed by the court’s decision but are complying with its removal order by blocking access to the listed videos for viewers in Hong Kong,” the representative said. Like most tech companies, Google has a policy of removing or restricting access to material that is deemed illegal by a court in certain countries or places. Links to the videos would also stop showing up on Google search results for users in Hong Kong after they become unavailable on YouTube to viewers in the region, according to the company representative. Beijing has asserted greater control over the former British colony in recent years by imposing a national security law that has crushed nearly all forms of dissent. In March, the Hong Kong government enacted new security legislation that criminalized offenses like “external interference” and the theft of state secrets, creating potential risks for multinational companies operating in the Asian financial center. — Saved 40% of original text.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Don’t be evil
drwho@beehaw.org 5 months ago
It still strikes me as odd that anybody ever trusted a mega.