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Imagine some entity that you consider absolute evil (most would probably think of their own government or something with three letters in its name😉).
You did? Google would probably cooperate with them willingly!
YouTube has begun blocking opposition content at the request of the Russian authorities: https://www.agents.media/youtube-has-begun-blocking-opposition-content-at-the-request-of-the-russian-authorities/
"Opposition content" in this context is Russian language videos on military service evasion!
And no don't give me your usual anti-capitalist response, unlike in China this isn't even to protect their business — YouTube doesn't show ads to Russians and doesn't pay Russians who post their videos since 2022, they are doing this even after the prosecution of their own employees in Russia. In this case it's censorship for the sake of censorship, there are no commercial interest involved, at least no obvious ones. There might still be less obvious 😏
This company is true evil!