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I earn a little spare cash as an English tutor over the Internet. My student is a little girl in Russia. During today's lesson she asked me if YouTube isn't working my country either. She said that people are trying to make RuTube to replace it.

I can't explain to her why it doesn't work for her but works for me. Either I must lie or break the law.

Kids are naive and innocent. It breaks the heart.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aren't there proxies? I don't know if they work in Russia tho

[–] rambling_lunatic 26 points 1 day ago

There are proxies and VPNs. My student is a little girl who innocently asked if YouTube is not working in my country either. It is this that is depressing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why is you explaining it breaking the law? Can you not mention sanctions either? RuTube is also already a thing, it started in like the earlu 2000s during the brief Russian tech boom, alongside VK, LiveJournal, Ozon, avito, mail dot ru and Ramblr which were all the same thing - copy of a western site with some changes.

[–] rambling_lunatic 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The cause of the YouTube block is that it blocks Russian state outlets. That is obviously going to prompt the question of why it did that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Bad relations" is how you can put it and just shut down further questions.

[–] rambling_lunatic 2 points 1 day ago

Fair. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

because the kremlin tsar decided to start a three day special operation that turned into a nasty war? oh no I said it :O

[–] rambling_lunatic 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If the girl repeats it, there will be consequences for her and her family. Children have no filter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

good on you for thinking ahead. what a shit show.