• Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Wasn’t Russia throttling YouTube bandwidth before hand to prepare for this? Along with banning cell phones for their soldiers, I guess they’re going for complete media blackout and control.

    Edit: I guess they announced 70% slowdown a couple weeks ago and just went straight to full shutdown.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      3 months ago

      Banning cell phones for soldiers on the front line has become common since the phone transmissions are used as bombing targets.

      However, the blackout of YouTube for the civilian populace is mainly for control purposes, especially as Ukraine is fairly active on YouTube.