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Ask HN: Is YouTube really slower in Russia? Who is behind it?
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- eimrine 2y agoAsk Stracer: Is YouTube any slower in China? Who might be considered supporting the digital feudalism? Is abortions really illegal in US? Is YouTube perfectly legal among the jurisdictions? Who decides what and where is considered acceptable?
- stracer 2y agoNot sure what your point is.
- pythonic_one 2y agoI have experienced video freeze at the first like 20 seconds which fixed after page reload, but many people say that it's impossible to use without VPN
- stracer 2y agoIs this Russian authorities, or Google themselves, slowly leaving?
- Yawrehto 2y agoI'm gonna guess it's the authorities. It's usually them. Google is presumably making money off of it and has little incentive to do it, especially piecemeal, while Russia has a history of censoring and often throttling internet access. Also, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which is, I should note, funded by the US government, claims that's what's happening [https://www.rferl.org/a/youtube-russia-throttling-tech-censorship/33057769.html https://www.rferl.org/a/youtube-russia-throttling-tech-censo...]. So it seems quite likely that it is, in fact, Russia's government behind this.
- r721 2y agohttps://therecord.media/russia-slows-youtube-speeds-legislation https://therecord.media/russia-slows-youtube-speeds-legislat...
- protomolecule 2y agoRussian living in Russia here. Yes. The government.