I bet their reasoning is they don't want to get involved in local "politics" but the idiots don't realize they were involved as soon as they started hosting there. Really what they're doing right now is promoting fascism and helping to prop up putin's regime by ensuring conscript dodging information isn't shared. Fucking bastards.
Google has not responded to the enquiries, but has not blocked anything either back then
But this time they did. I would speculate they blocked human rights content in return for the promise of YouTube not being blocked in Russia. I would expect YouTube to be blocked anyway, sooner or later
We keep saying that, but it's always "Waaaaahhh self hosting is so hard! I don't wanna pay for my audience's bandwidth! I need the YouTube algorithm for promotion!"
Fuckin babies thinking they deserve to be hailed as content creator entrepreneurs.