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The technical minutia is mostly irrelevant though, if the next generation of "the internet" is IP->TCP->TLS->HTTP->YouTube, getting punted from YouTube is effec
by hnov 5y ago
The technical minutia is mostly irrelevant though, if the next generation of "the internet" is IP->TCP->TLS->HTTP->YouTube, getting punted from YouTube is effectively getting punted off the internet. I see incredible symmetry in the two actions once you look past organizational differences:
Youtube is censoring videos and channels that run counter to the Western narrative, for the purposes of this conflict Youtube is a Western mouthpiece, Roskomnadzor bans all of Youtube.
The Russian government shapes the content that RT publishes especially as it pertains to Russia, for anything that pertains to Russia, RT is a mouthpiece, Youtube bans all of RT.
The difference in the above is that one actor is a private entity and the other a government agency.
- noduerme 5y agoIt's not technical minutiae, it's the difference between government censorship and private property rights. Almost all web traffic follows the pattern you laid out, and almost none of it in the US is broken in that pattern. Having your content hosted on the end service is entirely up to who runs the end service, and entirely outside the control of democratic government. And it's a privilege, not a right. Would you have our government force Youtube to host content it's decided it doesn't want to host?! I suppose if your understanding of the world were as simplistic as that of someone who believed RT, you would just assume government makes everything up and creates corporations as shells to put out their message. That's not how it works in the free world. Youtube is just one site in Russia. RT is one site in America. RT is not banned in America. Does RT let me post anything I want about Ukraine on their website? When they do, let us know.