chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
on 08 Aug 2024 11:47
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There hasn’t been any monetization since shortly after the invasion started. If I have to guess, Google was just footing the bills so they don’t lose presence to some local player when it’s all over.
I’m actually more curious as to who finally pulled the plug, Google, or the Russian government; and why finally now. Article made it seem like the Russian govt wanted to violate net neutrality and slow down YT’s traffic, but makes no mentioning of which party ultimately took the service down.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 12:42
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It’s the russian government. There have been rumors that they are planning to shut down YT for good in the last few months.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net
on 08 Aug 2024 11:28
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That’s what you get. Ukraine doesn’t have access to YouTube either thanks to the rolling blackouts. So… I guess cry more? Or if you’re Russian and reading this, and you want change for your country: realize you are many, they are few, and the few they have aren’t currently as strong as they were before your country illegally invaded Ukraine. It won’t be easy but maybe you and your brethren can secure a safer future for your children, those children, and all the children you will never meet, by rising up against your oppressors
fluxion@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 11:35
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Putin’s fight against reality continues. Who will be the victor?
merde@sh.itjust.works
on 08 Aug 2024 13:16
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Putin, of course!
kenkenken@sh.itjust.works
on 08 Aug 2024 15:04
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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 08 Aug 2024 11:46
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this is terrible news for right wing reactionary youtube channels.
UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 11:53
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While I understand people’s initial reaction to think this is a positive thing, I don’t believe it is. The less free speech and media the Russian people have access to, the more control Putins propaganda machine has.
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 08 Aug 2024 12:23
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Yeah… I suspect it has something to do with controlling info on Ukraine pushing back perhaps.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io
on 08 Aug 2024 12:45
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Same difference. They won't do anything about it anyway.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 12:46
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Practically all russians have had access to fully uncensored YT just one click away on their smartphones for over a decade (until today).
That didn’t really change anything. Russia’s problems lie in the attitude of the overwhelming majority of its people, not in the lack of access to information.
They make a conscious and fully informed choice to be genocidal imperialists and embrace authoritarianism.
merde@sh.itjust.works
on 08 Aug 2024 13:13
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Russia’s problems lie in the attitude of the overwhelming majority of its people, not in the lack of access to information.
They make a conscious and fully informed choice to be genocidal imperialists and embrace authoritarianism.
“they”?
what happens to dissidents in Putin’s Russia? It’s easy to criticize a repressed population when you’re not risking anything.
were all U.S. citizens responsible for the invasion of iraq? In U.S. where you don’t disappear for criticising the government and it’s choices, what difference did that freedom of speech make for Iraqis?
Where in the so called “west” do people keep buying from Putin’s Russia through cloaked trade?
while we’re on the subject of “genocidal imperialists embracing authoritarianism”, who are the greatest sponsors of one of the longest running apartheid regime? Is “the attitude of the overwhelming majority of its people” the cause of this genocidal apartheid?
nuances! “Overwhelming majority” is just trying to get by. Most people are not power hungry psychopaths. If Putin, Netanyahu and some more of their ilk died today, world would be a better place tomorrow.
fuck this! it’s time to go offline and read a decent book.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 13:48
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What about so called russian “dissidents”? Navalniy and his team openly supported the annexation of Crimea (and destruction of Ukrainian and Crimean Tartar culture).
The recently exchanged “dissidents” also showed their true colours by supporting the annexation of currently occupied territories in Ukraine.
We are not discussing US right now! The US did not annex Basra state, steal all the local children, force everyone to speak English and send anyone caught talking Arabic to a torture chamber; all with support of somewhere between 65% to 85% of their population.
The overwhelming majority of Russians are genocidal imperialists. They support invasions of foreign countries, annexations, attempts at elimatining local language and culture and setting up mass torture camps for anyone opposed to the yoke of russian degeneracy.
The “trying to get by” pitch is a ruse. Both qualitative and quantitative research (different methodologies, including ones that attempt to account for preference falsification) show this is not true and that on an outcome basis, the overwhelming majority of russians are indeed genocidal imperialists.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 08 Aug 2024 15:43
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The US did not annex Basra state
Of course not. But the US is actively funding a genocide in palestine and many similar atrocities around the globe. This empire has a long history of colonialism, imperialism, genocide, slavery, racism, war, etc. The overwhelming majority of USAians are also genocidal imperialists. Just listen to NPR. Just look at the presidential candidates.
I’m not saying the alt-empire is any better. I’m saying that empire is the same everywhere. All of these politicians are extremely privileged hanging out together at the UN, dinner parties, etc. regardless of what brand of state they serve. It’s all the same system and same people. Every state and all empire is trash.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 16:58
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So when did senior US politicians call for extermination of Gazan identity, banning arabic in Gaza and annexing Gaza as a new state?
You do understand that the term “genocidal imperialist” has actual meaning, right?
The overwhelming majority of russian are genocidal imperialist because they support russia full scale invasion and they have always supported the annexation of Crimea.
We can have a conversation about the bad and good things done by the US, but I don’t see what this has to do with the topic at hand?
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Aug 2024 05:08
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Fuck off with your xenophobia-biased opinions.
If you actually spent any amount of time communicating with people in Russia, you’d realise the overwhelming majority are not genocidal imperialists.
The overwhelming majority of Russians I’ve spoken to do not support the ongoing war, and would prefer if Ukraine was left alone.
I’d be interested in seeing where you’re pulling these extrapolated statistics from, including the demographics of the people who were surveyed.
If 7/10 Texans oppose abortion, does that mean 70% of the country believe the same thing?
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 09 Aug 2024 07:20
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You do understand that anecdotal findings don’t mean anything, right? I’ve lived in russia for a decade; the three russians I still speak to are anti-war. That’s not how any of this works!
I’ve posted links and reference to various research works previously in this thread. You can start by looking at polling from Levada (lots of age group information), Russian Field and a paper by LSE that uses list experiments (URL in one of my comments in this thread).
Even qualitative research by russian academics is damning for russian society. They find that even among those who don’t actively support the invasion, a majority still want to see their army win (i.e. annexation Ukrainian territories, steal children, bomb children’s cancer hospitals). This was a recent project done in a small town (15K) in Siberian russia, released just last month.
A strong majority of russian are most definitely genocidal imperialists (including the 19-29 age group, although it may be more of a regular majority than a “strong majority”). You’re really ignorant (of practically all quantitative and qualitative research as well as of history) and/or you are naive and not willing to ask yourself difficult questions.
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Aug 2024 19:26
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I’m willing to accept your claim, I’m just yet to see enough evidence to prove it.
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment.
People who criticise Putin over there don’t seem to last very long.
Maybe the average Russian citizen won’t have to worry about that, but there’s still the implication that having different political beliefs is something that should be shunned.
Checking the Levada polling methods, it doesn’t sound like those who are polled are always able to answer anonymously.
Judging by that page, they seem to prioritise door-knocking and in-person interviews.
Are you going to tell the person interviewing you, without knowing if they work for your corrupt government or not, that you disagree with your government?
I’m not a statician, but I think this is called social desirability bias. And when there’s a potential risk to your safety, or even the slightest suspicion that your answers could negatively impact you, that bias increases.
Yes, I’ll admit anecdotal findings are essentially useless when discussing a population, but those statistics aren’t much better.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 09 Aug 2024 19:52
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Considering the points that you raised, what are your critiques of list experiment methodology (e.g. the one by LSE that I referenced earlier) and their findings that preference falsification is just 10%. I will note that you are the one who brought up personal safety.
If the vast majority of your country are genocidal imperialists, it really doesn’t matter that a tiny micro-minority are hiding their preferences does it? At the very least you can admit that this logic is consistent, no?
Since you brought up Levada, they show that something like 84% of the Russian population supported the annexation of Crimea (i.e. at the very least they are committed imperialists). This data point has been consistent since 2014.
In context of your critique of Levada, how is that list experiment research had a comparable level of support at 80% for the annexation of Crimea?
The truth of the matter is that your have no evidence (quantitative or qualitative) or even a working theory to justify your view that the vast majority of russian are just poor souls who got stuck with putin.
This is nothing new for me btw. On the English language internet, you constantly see comically dumb takes about russians being little angels and putin being solely responsible for all evils committed by the russians.
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
on 10 Aug 2024 05:34
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Read the conclusion of the study.
The list experiment very clearly proved that there’s a lot of preference falsification happening, which was all they were testing for.
The survey results are unlikely to be an accurate representation of the public’s support of the war, there are many factors which could raise or lower the true level of support. Getting an accurate percentage wasn’t the purpose of the study.
And I don’t think Russians are innocent. Propaganda and local news may have a strong influence, but the genuine levels of support for their government’s actions is still seemingly much higher than it has any right to be.
But I don’t think its fair to say the vast majority of Russians are genocidal imperialists without accurate figures to back it up.
Those sort of blanket statements lead to racism, hate crimes, etc, against many innocent people.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2024 06:05
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And what is their estimate of preference falsification? It’s just ~10%, no?
What impact does this level of preference falsification have with respect to the % of russians who support the invasion of Ukraine, annexation of its territories and extermination of Ukrainian identity?
We go from ~75% to ~65% with preference falsification w.r.t. support for the above, is that not the case?
Do the numbers cited (less preference falsification) in support of the war not fall under the definition of “strong majority”? Is 65% not a strong majority?
Don’t the authors clearly state that their methodology (even with weights) likely underestimates the true level of support?
Their numbers (for support of the invasion of Ukraine) align with other polling methods; which is damning for the “innocent Russians just got played a bad hand, they are not really genocidal imperialists” narrative.
Why did you leave out these numbers? I don’t understand. They clearly reference them. Why would you do this?
But you would never accept any methodology or research that doesn’t show what you want to see. Be honest! It’s not about the research or the numbers for you.
So why bring up “accurate figures”?
White washing the genuine support for genocidal imperialism among a strong majority of russians leads to 100 of thousands of deaths, 10 of thousands people being tortured (UN stated that 95% of Ukrainian POWs were tortured, and that doesn’t include civilians) and millions having their livelihoods ruined.
And I am just referencing Ukraine. There are many other examples. The russians killed 5% of the civilian population of Chechnya in the 90s. That would be equivalent to killing 7 million russian civilians.
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
on 10 Aug 2024 09:03
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In that particular study, yes, they measured a ~10% difference in support when using the list method vs directly asking.
I didn’t mention the exact figure because if you read the study, you would see that even they claim this isn’t a perfect method.
There could be many more supporters of the war, but there could also be many fewer.
As they say, they sampled a relatively liberal demographic, so it’s likely that the national average result from this survey would be higher, which would certainly help your argument.
But they also say that there’s “empirical evidence that list experiments reduce response bias but do not eliminate it entirely (Rosenfeld et al. 2016).”
Like I said earlier, I’m not a statistician, so I have no idea if the bias can be estimated to have been reduced by 90% or 20%.
All I know is that you shouldn’t jump to conclusions, especially when there’s many external factors at play.
I’m willing to be proven wrong, and I don’t appreciate your attempts to strawman me as somebody who isn’t.
I’ll admit that I’m biased because I want to believe that most people over there aren’t terrible, and in my anecdotal experience, they have been. So yes, I’m more likely to be skeptical of results that indicate the opposite, especially if they don’t properly account for the external social influences at play.
I’ve never stated that there isn’t a large percentage of Russians who are genocidal imperialists, I’m arguing that we should try and figure out the facts before claiming that the overwhelming majority of the population are that way.
The way you jump to the opposite conclusion without definitive evidence leads me to believe that you are also biased in your beliefs.
I’m not sure what this argument is trying to accomplish anyway?
I’m not convinced that ‘white washing’ the beliefs of the Russian population are to blame.
What Russia is doing is fucking horrific, there’s no argument to be had there. But should the entire population be monstrified for the actions of their government?
Instead of just slapping a label on the entire population, we should be working on lowering those statistics, and spreading awareness that there’s a huge percentage of Russians who disagree with their government.
The people over there need to know that they aren’t alone in their beliefs, and that they have more like-minded supporters than they realise.
Otherwise the thought of fighting back and enacting change seems hopeless.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2024 09:52
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Can you stop trying to imply that I didn’t read the study? What are you trying to achieve with such petty passive aggressive jabs?
Of course it’s not a perfect method, but it aligns with other studies (quantitative direct polling and other list experiments, as well as qualitative). It also aligns with long term historical studies around positive attitudes of the russian population towards imperialism (increase in approval of government following invasions, annexations and genocides) over the past ~30 years.
How am I trying to strawman you? Critiquing your reliance on annecdotal experience (that funnily enough mirror my own - although I don’t claim my anecdotal experience means anything) is a straw man?
Show evidence for your framing around “let’s not jump to conclusions”!
What external factors? What external social influences? Be clear and direct in your claims and back them up with something more than “I feel so”!
Show how these factors are important! Going back to my original post, fully uncensored YouTube has been a click away for every russian with smartphone until recently, is this not the case? Can the same not be said about telegram?
What am I trying to accomplish with my argument?
To show reality and not let well meaning, but completely unverified platitudes (that contradict all research and even history) get in the way explaining the nature of russian imperialism.
You’re not convinced that white washing the genuine support for genocidal imperialism among a strong majority of russians is relevant because you don’t have to deal with the cruelty and degeneracy of the russians.
Why should we not make russians who support genocidal imperialism (both conceptually and as implemented by their leaders) responsible? Are they children? Of course they should pay for their actions.
And what if the reality is that a strong majority of russians are not interested in implementing any kind of change in their society?
Or that the russia as a society has dug itself into such a hole (supporting putin for 25 years and supporting genocidal imperialism for ~35 years) that there is no easy way out other than violence; something the absolute majority of allegedly “opposition minded” russians are not willing or able to engage in.
By the way, that’s totally understandable; but in that case they shouldn’t talk about magical fantasies of a democratic russia of the future appearing out of no where.
Let’s say for the sake of argument I agree with your take that genocidal imperialism of russia since it’s founding is not representative of current russian society.
How and when do you expect any changes to happen?
How - I am not asking for in-depth details, just a general outline that goes beyond “somehow in the future”.
When - 5 years? 10 years? 50 years? 100 years?
Addendum question - while we wait for these changes, what would you like people in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Chechnya and Belarus to do? Please be specific.
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
on 10 Aug 2024 15:54
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Sorry, I was under the impression that you hadn’t read the study because of our vastly different takeaways.
And strawman was probably the incorrect term in that context.
By external factors and social influences, I mean the social consensus that going against the government is unsafe.
That presidential candidates who have any chance of beating Putin are banned from the ballots, jailed, or coincidentally die before they’re able to build a large enough following.
That it’s safer to just play along than to put a target on your back.
If you were unable to piece together what I meant in the context of this conversation, I’m not convinced this discussion will lead anywhere productive.
Given that the study makes no claim that the statistics accurately represent the true beliefs of the Russian population, I’m suggesting that taking those numbers and concluding otherwise so you can justify calling the overhwelming majority of Russians ‘genocidal imperialists’ is irresponsible at best.
I’ve also never stated that Russians who genuinely support genocide should not be held accountable for their actions. Maybe this is a better example of a strawman argument?
Checking the latest released polls from levada, you can see that the majority of polled participants indicated support for what Russia is doing to Ukraine.
Yet, further down, it shows more participants indicated support for diplomatic resolution over military action.
I see this as a reasonable indicator that the majority of Russians are not genocidal.
And taking preference falsification and levada’s polling methods into account, the numbers could be even more in favour of both diplomatic resolution and disapproval of the war as a whole.
Maybe the overwhelming majority don’t want change in their society, or maybe they don’t have a choice (I’m talking about rigged elections, in case you were struggling to figure out the context again).
I have no idea when any societal changes within Russia will happen, I don’t happen to own a time machine.
I can only guess and assume that there won’t be any substantial publicly-expressed change in ideology while Putin is still in charge.
I’ll let people in those countries make up their own minds about what they should do, and I would hope the rest of the world will continue to support them with whatever that may be.
I’m not sure why you’re asking me these things, they aren’t really relevant to any of the points I’ve been trying to make.
I appreciate you sticking around for this argument, but I think I’m done.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2024 19:30
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That’s not a convincing answer.
Before our exchange you didn’t know what a list experiment was or what the term preference falsification meant.
Yet you were aggressively parroting the standard polemic about “innocent russians” and “all polling is wrong because it doesn’t align with my message”.
And now you’re acting all high and mighty with strawn men and “vastly different takeaways”.
You claim that the paper shows the mere existence of preference falsification. This is complete bullshit and you know it.
Preference falsification = A - B
Where:
A (~75%) = support for genocidal imperialism via regular polling
B (~65%) = support for genocidal imperialism via list experiments
If you don’t believe A or B to be true, then you can’t define whether preference falsification exists.
This is basic logic and you’ve totally failed it.
Diplomatic resolution? What’s that?
Russia continues to occupy 20% of Ukraine and then attacks again when they are ready?
Fucking awesome diplomatic resolution!
I am asking you about the hows and whys because you made a claim that we need to support russian “dissidents”.
Is it not reasonable to ask what and when we’ll see the outcome of this?
Why would you do something if you have no plan for how and when to achieve a given outcome?
You’ve thankfully never had to actually deal with russians, that’s what’s driving your petty bullshit and delusions.
Let’s hope things stay that way, for your own benefit.
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
on 11 Aug 2024 06:31
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Here’s a link to the study I mentioned earlier, which indicates that list experiments are not an accurate way to determine the level of preference falsification.
In it, the real response was often more than double the difference between direct polling and the list experiment results.
You continue to argue against things I’ve never said. Calling you out for saying I’ve said or argued for something which I haven’t is not acting high and mighty.
And yet, here you are doing it again…
I never said all polling is wrong, just polling that didn’t properly account for falsification, which the list method is clearly unable to do.
More of the surveyed Russians said they would prefer to talk with Ukraine over continuing military actions.
That doesn’t mean that’s what the government/Putin also believes, it means the population would generally prefer diplomacy over war.
By your same line of logic, why should anyone support LGBT people in places where it’s illegal if you don’t have any plans to change their country’s laws?
We need timeline estimates otherwise it’s pointless.
It’s a terrible defeatist argument which is not worth humoring.
I’m done talking with you now.
You’re deliberately ignoring and misinterpreting any points that don’t align with your view, and its tiring.
All that said, this has been an interesting bit of insight into the mind of a bigot.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 11 Aug 2024 06:47
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I will need to take a more in-depth look the paper, but reading the introduction and conclusion, I don’t see such a clear critique, it sounds like you mostly made it up.
You just learned what a list experiment was just a few days ago and were arguing for a comical anecdotal view, so pardon my scepticism regarding your ability to read papers or act in good faith.
Prefer to talk to Ukraine = continue to occupation of Ukrainian territory, with torture camps and experimentation Ukrainian identity. I.e. genocidal imperialism.
We’ve seen how the russians acted after 2014, there is no reason trust them to act differently now.
You’re a delusion child, that is too cowardly to admit their mistakes and take a sober look at reality.
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
on 11 Aug 2024 08:42
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I’m not going to waste any more time arguing against your assumptions, false claims and flawed reasoning, when it’s clear you have no interest in thinking critically about the matter.
Congrats, you win 👍
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 11 Aug 2024 08:46
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Nothing to do with “winning” and I never framed it as such. For me “winning” is kicking the Russians out of my country, not some internet discussion (like for you).
Keep on white washing russian crimes and enabling the degeneracy of a strong majority of russian society.
Just watch that it doesn’t bite you and your family in the ass one day! Your delusion will not be of much use then!
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
on 11 Aug 2024 08:47
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Why should we not make russians who support genocidal imperialism (both conceptually and as implemented by their leaders) responsible? Are they children? Of course they should pay for their actions.
How would you sort those who support war from those who don’t?
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 11 Aug 2024 06:59
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It would depend on the geo-political context, currently there are less viable options.
In a different context, beyond the main mass of hardcore criminal (several million russian) that require strict punishments, you could leverage a legal proof method.
Every russian signs a legal paper outlining and their overall support for genocidal imperialism, putin, knowingly promoting false russian propaganda and so on.
Based on the of level severity of their support for genocidal imperialism, they would have to pay financial compensation and engage in global community service work (de-mining in Syria, junior janitor in an infectious disease hospital in rural Africa).
The legal paper would have a clause stating that if you claim you never supported genocidal imperialism (as certified in the legal paper), but later evidence comes up that you were actually supportive of russian degeneracy, you lose all your assets and will be required to do two decade of global community service (or go to jail). This clause would be valid indefinitely for the life of the person.
Note, I am not saying the above-mentioned approach is viable right now. I am trying to show that there methods to create incentives for russians to be open about their support for genocidal imperialism.
Navalniy and his team openly supported the annexation of Crimea (and destruction of Ukrainian and Crimean Tartar culture).
Not really: www.nytimes.com/2014/…/how-to-punish-putin.html ; this is just days after the annexation. I’m no fan of Navalny for various reasons (his nationalist views, xenophobic comments and narratives, etc), but he was very much against all Putin’s shenanigans in Ukraine, and vehemently anti-war.
The recently exchanged “dissidents” also showed their true colours by supporting the annexation of currently occupied territories in Ukraine.
What are you on about? Name one of them who supported the war. Most of them were jailed due to their anti-war positions.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 09 Aug 2024 08:17
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The NYT article is aimed at western audiences, of course they are going to present a more humanistic pitch.
English language content from the russian “opposition” is often misleading.
In russian, Navalniy initially clearly stated that “Ukrainians, you should forget about Crimea” and that “Crimea is not a ham sandwich, you can’t just give it back!”
He later did a PR pass on his position with a call for an “independent referendum”; a typical russian imperialist mindset. The Ukrainian constitution only allows for national referendums on such matters.
Navalniy own head goon even confirmed that they supported the annexation of Crimea because the vast majority of russian are imperialists:
He was most definitely not anti-war. The russian invasion of Ukraine began with the annexation of Crimea; which was supported by Navaliy and his team.
One of Yashin’s responsibilities as a deputy in 2018 was conscription. Russia has been at war with Ukraine since 2014.
Now I understand for Yashin the “real” war started in 2022 and he was just “looking to promote democracy by taking part in municipal politics”.
But that’s irrelevant if you are from Donbas and your family was forced to leave in 2014. Or if you language and religion are being prosecuted In Crimea.
Kara-Murza went a tired rant about how we sanctions need to be weakened
Pivaovarov stated opposition minded Russians shouldn’t donate to the AFU. Imagine dissidents of the Nazi regime (who took part in a prisoner exchange) stated that opposition minded Germans shouldn’t be supporting the war effort against Nazi Germany.
starman@programming.dev
on 10 Aug 2024 18:24
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In U.S. where you don’t disappear for criticising the government and it’s choices
Sometimes you shoot yourself in the head. Twice.
UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 13:44
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I don’t think a grassroots revolution will be taking place anytime soon, but this is aimed at the young people of Russia who are against the war. The old people there love Putin but I suspect they also aren’t watching YouTube.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 13:55
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The majority of the young people in Russia are genocidal imperialists. Support for extermination of other countries is of course higher in the older generations, but that doesn’t change the fact that a solid majority of young (e.g. 18 to 29) are genocidal imperialists.
I understand that it might be reassuring to repeat platitudes like “young people of russia are against the war”, but this is clearly not true.
Even the framing is suspect. What do you mean by “the war”; the full-scale invasion? In Ukraine, the war started in 2014 with annexation of Crimea and russian invasion of Donbas.
May I know where you found the info that a solid majority of young Russians (well, I think you only talk about those that did not already leave) supports the war?
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 17:05
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A tiny % left and even among them there are many genocidal nationalists and fake opposition types.
Look up any research on the topic Russian Field, Levada, LSE List Experiment on support from the war among Russians.
I believe the general trend was that every age category had a majority and that at one point the 30-40 age group had slightly lower support for russian annexation and destruction of Ukrainian identity than the 18 -29 age group.
I don’t know those sources, but I fear those aren’t really representative
Maybe someone wants to dig, I have no time for that right now…
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 17:39
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I hear that all the time, “but what about the challenges of polling under an autocracy?”, as if they were the first one to think about it.
But if you show alternative methodologies that account for preference falsification and the estimates for preference falsification turn out to be low, you never hear back from people.
But this approach is understandable, people in the west have a very primitive understanding of russian culture and russian constantly code switch when pushing polemics for western audiences and when speaking in russian.
I look into those regularly. Those are credible sources that are often used by our scientists, but you have to be very careful with statistics during war periods.
What do you think the majority of people hear when asked, “Do you support actions of Russian military in Ukraine?”. They hear, “Are you a traitor?” and answer accordingly. The majority (4 out of 5, I believe, if not more) refuse to answer at all. So, it’s not exactly representative.
What we look at instead is questions that are not this direct. Such as “Do you think Russia should continue or start peace talks?”. The majority (58%) is for peace talks. This number has increased since September 2022 by 10%, whilst the number of pro-war people decreased from 44% to 34%. Their quality also changed. For “absolutely should start peace talks” went from 21% (out of all votes) up to 26%, whilst for “absolutely should continue military actions” went from 29% down to 21%.
The longer things continue, the less support Russia’s government has. That’s what can be said for certain. The other conclusion we can derive is that war isn’t popular.
Edit: Oh, and the youth, 67% of the youth (18-24) is for peace talks, 23% pro-war. 65% for ages 25-39, only 25% pro-war.
The vast majority of pro-war people are elderly. Can you guess who also watches the TV the most? And who the TV is controlled by?
For the full picture, I’ll also add “they started it, so it’s their responsibility, we had no choice in it” This phrase explains the whole mentality of Russians very well.
BelatedPeacock@lemmy.world
on 09 Aug 2024 22:18
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Not a Russian political expert, but the fact Putin keeps calling it “denazification” and a “special military operation” leads me to believe there’s a lot of people who don’t support a full blown war.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2024 04:42
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Why do you say this?
If 75% of russians support the “denazification” of Ukraine, that says a lot about them, no?
BelatedPeacock@lemmy.world
on 11 Aug 2024 10:54
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Because if their government won’t give them the full story it implies they might not like it.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 11 Aug 2024 12:20
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So you’re saying russians genuinely believe that since 2014 they’ve been “fighting Nazism in Ukraine” and this is not a genocidal imperialist war?
As I mentioned in my OP, you do know that every russian had uncensored youtube within a single click on their smartphone until the last month or so? Btw, the YT app is available in russian and there is a lot of russian language content.
This makes no sense!
BelatedPeacock@lemmy.world
on 12 Aug 2024 04:06
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I’m not saying they believe that, I’m just commenting on what their government is saying.
I have very little knowledge on what the average Russian citizen thinks.
Is this a new development? If so could it be due to the Ukrainian incursion? I thought telegram was more popular there for that stuff
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 16:43
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I have a slightly different take: I think it’s a positive thing because the sooner we destroy YouTube, the sooner YouTube will be destroyed.
essteeyou@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 17:45
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Feels like your priorities might be out of order.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 17:49
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My priorities are thus:
Destroy YouTube
Everything else
They know what they did.
Laser@feddit.org
on 08 Aug 2024 18:15
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“YouTube delenda est”
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 18:33
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“Fiat justitia, ruat YouTube”
iLL_Behaviour@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 18:37
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What did they do?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 20:07
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Oh, they know.
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 12:00
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damn. how would russians watch unwanted ads now?
EisFrei@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 14:55
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AFAIK they didn’t have to watch ads since the sanctions took effect, because Google wasn’t allowed to monetize them.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 08 Aug 2024 15:31
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Wow. Can’t wait for this empire to sanction itself.
BassTurd@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 15:15
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Prime, Netflix, Hulu, any news website, pornhub, etc…
considine@lemmy.ml
on 08 Aug 2024 12:18
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Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty is straight up State department propaganda.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io
on 08 Aug 2024 12:43
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lemmy.ml is straight up lemmygrad / hexbear Tankie propaganda.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 12:51
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While this is somewhat true (state funded, but with some level of independence), your statement doesn’t jive with reality.
I follow RFE/RL in both English and several other languages. Their reporting is far better than many multi-billion dollar private news companies in the West.
And it’s not a minor difference either, the western news companies are not even close.
cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
on 08 Aug 2024 22:42
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What an absurd response. This is akin to saying RT isn’t Russian state propaganda.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip
on 09 Aug 2024 00:49
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RT and RFE/RF are state media, but there is a difference. The former does not enjoy freedom and the latter does because of its firewall that prevents political interference.
Although the Trump administration tried to remove firewalls and introduce its inference that could have been harmful during that period.
cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
on 09 Aug 2024 06:36
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I think you mean it’s designed to prevent partisan interference. RFE/RL’s purpose is to support US foreign policy which makes it inherently political. It is undeniably a propaganda outlet and therefore comparable in function to RT. You may trust American propaganda over Russian propaganda but that doesn’t mean the former is not propaganda.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 09 Aug 2024 07:22
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Just a question, what do you know about RFE/RL?
Do you follow any of their news program series?
Do you speak any other languageslioe Ukrainian, Belarusian or Georgian?
cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
on 10 Aug 2024 00:33
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I do check out RFE/RL and its sister outlets from time to time. It’s pretty obvious that their agenda aligns 1 for 1 with American foreign policy objectives. To be fair though, the US wouldn’t fund RFE/RL if it didn’t effectively dupe people into believing it was an unbiased source.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2024 04:41
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Is there anything else that you noticed beyond “aligns with US foreign policy objectives”.
Did you only read it in English? What other language services from them did you read.
cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
on 10 Aug 2024 16:34
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How’s that relevant? Do you have counter evidence for any of the points I made or are you just desperately trying to prove you’re not a dupe?
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2024 19:32
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I agree with you, I am very desperately trying to prove something to someone who can’t even read the work of RFE/RL!
Total dupe!
cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
on 11 Aug 2024 02:24
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“I trust the United States government and so should you!” -Alphane Moon
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
on 11 Aug 2024 06:18
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There times when it is reasonable to trust the US government.
You should never trust anything that comes out of russia; even their “opposition” (let alone their government thugs).
Propaganda is usually truthful or exaggerated truth. It’s the framing that is important. Some facts are focused on. Some facts are omitted.
I acknowledge that Russia, China and the DPRK have made mistakes and even done things that are deeply questionable. But I’m interested in comparing their mistakes or misguided actions to those of the most powerful military empire on earth. The one involved in hundreds of military actions and dozens of coups since its inception. The one with the largest per capita prison population on earth. The one which controls many of the world’s financial levers.
There is a difference in the scale of their mistakes or bad actions. Propaganda distorts that difference of scale. It focuses on the crimes of the “enemies” / “axis of evil” / “rogue states” but doesn’t examine context or culpability of the empire. They’ll choose one conflict, downplay 9 others, and give a one-sided view of that one conflict.
That’s how propaganda works. Every state produces propaganda. One state produces billions of dollars of propaganda each year.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 12:36
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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
on 08 Aug 2024 13:55
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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.
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 08 Aug 2024 17:05
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Is this the Russian Government censoring them, or is YouTube just pulling out because the sanctions mean they can’t run ads to Russian IPs?
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 08 Aug 2024 17:58
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the biggest ISP in Russia, rostelecom, started throttling youtube by 80% last month and is planning a full blocking. It’s a curious choice though… even the hardest most Z people are not happy about it.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip
on 09 Aug 2024 00:27
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It is a double-edged sword, because it would leave them blind to certain news without propaganda. Which could have direct and indirect consequences.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 09 Aug 2024 00:37
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there is a browser extension that loads websites without middleman interference, a lot of people are using that. apparently it even unblocks twitter and some other sites.
TwinTusks@bitforged.space
on 09 Aug 2024 05:53
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The government claims it’s Google’s hardware getting outdated. Google says that’s bs.
I think that it’s convenient how they’re telling that to us right before throttling YouTube only with certain providers (and seems to be with only certain regions as well).
chiliedogg@lemmy.world
on 09 Aug 2024 05:01
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YouTube was running like garbage for me in Texas earlier today while everything else was fine. Are they having issues in general?
Binette@lemmy.ml
on 08 Aug 2024 17:09
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Mistic@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 22:13
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They’re crap. People will be and are looking for ways to evade restrictions.
Right now, they’re only limiting speed with certain providers in certain locations. There are at least three ways that I know of to avoid it.
The thing is, I don’t know how far they’ll take it. Blocking YouTube is a major political risk. Practically, everybody uses it for one reason or another. So, unlike their “special military operation,” this (as mercantile as it sounds) will potentially have a bigger impact on everybody’s lives. But you really can never be sure with our mafia-in-charge anymore.
logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 11 Aug 2024 08:00
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YouTube doesn’t serve ads when viewed from Russia anymore, so there is no revenue from this audience. And you can’t take money out from within Russia due to sanctions.
Russian YouTubers are pretty much screwed and have to re-locate. The only other option is earning from product placements.
peregrinetech@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 19:15
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And I really liked the Russian Youtubers… Nonetheless, it’s a different kind of censorship and it might just lead to more propaganda…
selokichtli@lemmy.ml
on 08 Aug 2024 21:34
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It’s just so strange to read how Americans blame Putin for everything almost the rest of the world (demographically speaking) blames their government for.
Come on you can do better than this. You’r not even being entertainingly bad.
You need to improve or else you will fall out of a window.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml
on 09 Aug 2024 03:28
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Sure, champion, your attention saved my life today. Let me get back to my trolling, spying, forced and commie stuff.
levzzz@lemmy.world
on 08 Aug 2024 22:25
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Russian here. Yes, this is indeed true. They’ve been throttling the bandwidth for a good while before, even yt music was slow. GoodbyeDPI lets you bypass the blocks for now. Idk what to expect next tbh
pineapplelover@lemm.ee
on 09 Aug 2024 01:17
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I mean you could still use frontends out there but don’t you all start using them at once. I use them too you know.
mkuznetsoff@lemmy.world
on 09 Aug 2024 19:36
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mkuznetsoff@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2024 11:41
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это же только сервера русские, я сам на Lemmy.world
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
on 09 Aug 2024 05:35
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Hold on! How about Disney?
But seriously, before anyone puts a hole in putins shit basket, can you please ask him how he got the YouTube and Google to stop?
Maybe we could do the same!? We do have Mexico, should we invade Mexico? I’m fine with it, I was born there. I’m sure many others would agree conmigo.
Or maybe it’s a secret Mafia connection?
Cyberjin@lemmy.world
on 09 Aug 2024 07:00
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Thought it has already banned? Thought they had the same view as Chinese government to limited information so they can better brainwash people in Russia with propaganda.
threaded - newest
Good.
Because fuck ‘em, that’s why!
turkey re(?)banned roblox
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Why has it been accessible to begin with? $$$
There hasn’t been any monetization since shortly after the invasion started. If I have to guess, Google was just footing the bills so they don’t lose presence to some local player when it’s all over.
I’m actually more curious as to who finally pulled the plug, Google, or the Russian government; and why finally now. Article made it seem like the Russian govt wanted to violate net neutrality and slow down YT’s traffic, but makes no mentioning of which party ultimately took the service down.
It’s the russian government. There have been rumors that they are planning to shut down YT for good in the last few months.
That’s what you get. Ukraine doesn’t have access to YouTube either thanks to the rolling blackouts. So… I guess cry more? Or if you’re Russian and reading this, and you want change for your country: realize you are many, they are few, and the few they have aren’t currently as strong as they were before your country illegally invaded Ukraine. It won’t be easy but maybe you and your brethren can secure a safer future for your children, those children, and all the children you will never meet, by rising up against your oppressors
Putin’s fight against reality continues. Who will be the victor?
Putin, of course!
Putin is reality.
I’m going to need some more details. Is reality shirtless on a horse?
Yes, and buff AF
this is terrible news for right wing reactionary youtube channels.
While I understand people’s initial reaction to think this is a positive thing, I don’t believe it is. The less free speech and media the Russian people have access to, the more control Putins propaganda machine has.
Yeah… I suspect it has something to do with controlling info on Ukraine pushing back perhaps.
Same difference. They won't do anything about it anyway.
Practically all russians have had access to fully uncensored YT just one click away on their smartphones for over a decade (until today).
That didn’t really change anything. Russia’s problems lie in the attitude of the overwhelming majority of its people, not in the lack of access to information.
They make a conscious and fully informed choice to be genocidal imperialists and embrace authoritarianism.
“they”?
what happens to dissidents in Putin’s Russia? It’s easy to criticize a repressed population when you’re not risking anything.
were all U.S. citizens responsible for the invasion of iraq? In U.S. where you don’t disappear for criticising the government and it’s choices, what difference did that freedom of speech make for Iraqis?
Where in the so called “west” do people keep buying from Putin’s Russia through cloaked trade?
while we’re on the subject of “genocidal imperialists embracing authoritarianism”, who are the greatest sponsors of one of the longest running apartheid regime? Is “the attitude of the overwhelming majority of its people” the cause of this genocidal apartheid?
nuances! “Overwhelming majority” is just trying to get by. Most people are not power hungry psychopaths. If Putin, Netanyahu and some more of their ilk died today, world would be a better place tomorrow.
fuck this! it’s time to go offline and read a decent book.
What about so called russian “dissidents”? Navalniy and his team openly supported the annexation of Crimea (and destruction of Ukrainian and Crimean Tartar culture).
The recently exchanged “dissidents” also showed their true colours by supporting the annexation of currently occupied territories in Ukraine.
We are not discussing US right now! The US did not annex Basra state, steal all the local children, force everyone to speak English and send anyone caught talking Arabic to a torture chamber; all with support of somewhere between 65% to 85% of their population.
The overwhelming majority of Russians are genocidal imperialists. They support invasions of foreign countries, annexations, attempts at elimatining local language and culture and setting up mass torture camps for anyone opposed to the yoke of russian degeneracy.
The “trying to get by” pitch is a ruse. Both qualitative and quantitative research (different methodologies, including ones that attempt to account for preference falsification) show this is not true and that on an outcome basis, the overwhelming majority of russians are indeed genocidal imperialists.
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Of course not. But the US is actively funding a genocide in palestine and many similar atrocities around the globe. This empire has a long history of colonialism, imperialism, genocide, slavery, racism, war, etc. The overwhelming majority of USAians are also genocidal imperialists. Just listen to NPR. Just look at the presidential candidates.
I’m not saying the alt-empire is any better. I’m saying that empire is the same everywhere. All of these politicians are extremely privileged hanging out together at the UN, dinner parties, etc. regardless of what brand of state they serve. It’s all the same system and same people. Every state and all empire is trash.
So when did senior US politicians call for extermination of Gazan identity, banning arabic in Gaza and annexing Gaza as a new state?
You do understand that the term “genocidal imperialist” has actual meaning, right?
The overwhelming majority of russian are genocidal imperialist because they support russia full scale invasion and they have always supported the annexation of Crimea.
We can have a conversation about the bad and good things done by the US, but I don’t see what this has to do with the topic at hand?
Fuck off with your xenophobia-biased opinions.
If you actually spent any amount of time communicating with people in Russia, you’d realise the overwhelming majority are not genocidal imperialists.
The overwhelming majority of Russians I’ve spoken to do not support the ongoing war, and would prefer if Ukraine was left alone.
I’d be interested in seeing where you’re pulling these extrapolated statistics from, including the demographics of the people who were surveyed.
If 7/10 Texans oppose abortion, does that mean 70% of the country believe the same thing?
You do understand that anecdotal findings don’t mean anything, right? I’ve lived in russia for a decade; the three russians I still speak to are anti-war. That’s not how any of this works!
I’ve posted links and reference to various research works previously in this thread. You can start by looking at polling from Levada (lots of age group information), Russian Field and a paper by LSE that uses list experiments (URL in one of my comments in this thread).
Even qualitative research by russian academics is damning for russian society. They find that even among those who don’t actively support the invasion, a majority still want to see their army win (i.e. annexation Ukrainian territories, steal children, bomb children’s cancer hospitals). This was a recent project done in a small town (15K) in Siberian russia, released just last month.
A strong majority of russian are most definitely genocidal imperialists (including the 19-29 age group, although it may be more of a regular majority than a “strong majority”). You’re really ignorant (of practically all quantitative and qualitative research as well as of history) and/or you are naive and not willing to ask yourself difficult questions.
I’m willing to accept your claim, I’m just yet to see enough evidence to prove it.
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment.
People who criticise Putin over there don’t seem to last very long.
Maybe the average Russian citizen won’t have to worry about that, but there’s still the implication that having different political beliefs is something that should be shunned.
Checking the Levada polling methods, it doesn’t sound like those who are polled are always able to answer anonymously.
Judging by that page, they seem to prioritise door-knocking and in-person interviews.
Are you going to tell the person interviewing you, without knowing if they work for your corrupt government or not, that you disagree with your government?
I’m not a statician, but I think this is called social desirability bias. And when there’s a potential risk to your safety, or even the slightest suspicion that your answers could negatively impact you, that bias increases.
Yes, I’ll admit anecdotal findings are essentially useless when discussing a population, but those statistics aren’t much better.
Considering the points that you raised, what are your critiques of list experiment methodology (e.g. the one by LSE that I referenced earlier) and their findings that preference falsification is just 10%. I will note that you are the one who brought up personal safety.
If the vast majority of your country are genocidal imperialists, it really doesn’t matter that a tiny micro-minority are hiding their preferences does it? At the very least you can admit that this logic is consistent, no?
Since you brought up Levada, they show that something like 84% of the Russian population supported the annexation of Crimea (i.e. at the very least they are committed imperialists). This data point has been consistent since 2014.
In context of your critique of Levada, how is that list experiment research had a comparable level of support at 80% for the annexation of Crimea?
The truth of the matter is that your have no evidence (quantitative or qualitative) or even a working theory to justify your view that the vast majority of russian are just poor souls who got stuck with putin.
This is nothing new for me btw. On the English language internet, you constantly see comically dumb takes about russians being little angels and putin being solely responsible for all evils committed by the russians.
Read the conclusion of the study. The list experiment very clearly proved that there’s a lot of preference falsification happening, which was all they were testing for.
The survey results are unlikely to be an accurate representation of the public’s support of the war, there are many factors which could raise or lower the true level of support. Getting an accurate percentage wasn’t the purpose of the study.
And I don’t think Russians are innocent. Propaganda and local news may have a strong influence, but the genuine levels of support for their government’s actions is still seemingly much higher than it has any right to be.
But I don’t think its fair to say the vast majority of Russians are genocidal imperialists without accurate figures to back it up.
Those sort of blanket statements lead to racism, hate crimes, etc, against many innocent people.
And what is their estimate of preference falsification? It’s just ~10%, no?
What impact does this level of preference falsification have with respect to the % of russians who support the invasion of Ukraine, annexation of its territories and extermination of Ukrainian identity?
We go from ~75% to ~65% with preference falsification w.r.t. support for the above, is that not the case?
Do the numbers cited (less preference falsification) in support of the war not fall under the definition of “strong majority”? Is 65% not a strong majority?
Don’t the authors clearly state that their methodology (even with weights) likely underestimates the true level of support?
Their numbers (for support of the invasion of Ukraine) align with other polling methods; which is damning for the “innocent Russians just got played a bad hand, they are not really genocidal imperialists” narrative.
Why did you leave out these numbers? I don’t understand. They clearly reference them. Why would you do this?
But you would never accept any methodology or research that doesn’t show what you want to see. Be honest! It’s not about the research or the numbers for you.
So why bring up “accurate figures”?
White washing the genuine support for genocidal imperialism among a strong majority of russians leads to 100 of thousands of deaths, 10 of thousands people being tortured (UN stated that 95% of Ukrainian POWs were tortured, and that doesn’t include civilians) and millions having their livelihoods ruined.
And I am just referencing Ukraine. There are many other examples. The russians killed 5% of the civilian population of Chechnya in the 90s. That would be equivalent to killing 7 million russian civilians.
In that particular study, yes, they measured a ~10% difference in support when using the list method vs directly asking.
I didn’t mention the exact figure because if you read the study, you would see that even they claim this isn’t a perfect method.
There could be many more supporters of the war, but there could also be many fewer.
As they say, they sampled a relatively liberal demographic, so it’s likely that the national average result from this survey would be higher, which would certainly help your argument.
But they also say that there’s “empirical evidence that list experiments reduce response bias but do not eliminate it entirely (Rosenfeld et al. 2016).”
Like I said earlier, I’m not a statistician, so I have no idea if the bias can be estimated to have been reduced by 90% or 20%.
All I know is that you shouldn’t jump to conclusions, especially when there’s many external factors at play.
I’m willing to be proven wrong, and I don’t appreciate your attempts to strawman me as somebody who isn’t.
I’ll admit that I’m biased because I want to believe that most people over there aren’t terrible, and in my anecdotal experience, they have been. So yes, I’m more likely to be skeptical of results that indicate the opposite, especially if they don’t properly account for the external social influences at play.
I’ve never stated that there isn’t a large percentage of Russians who are genocidal imperialists, I’m arguing that we should try and figure out the facts before claiming that the overwhelming majority of the population are that way.
The way you jump to the opposite conclusion without definitive evidence leads me to believe that you are also biased in your beliefs.
I’m not sure what this argument is trying to accomplish anyway?
I’m not convinced that ‘white washing’ the beliefs of the Russian population are to blame.
What Russia is doing is fucking horrific, there’s no argument to be had there. But should the entire population be monstrified for the actions of their government?
Instead of just slapping a label on the entire population, we should be working on lowering those statistics, and spreading awareness that there’s a huge percentage of Russians who disagree with their government.
The people over there need to know that they aren’t alone in their beliefs, and that they have more like-minded supporters than they realise.
Otherwise the thought of fighting back and enacting change seems hopeless.
Can you stop trying to imply that I didn’t read the study? What are you trying to achieve with such petty passive aggressive jabs?
Of course it’s not a perfect method, but it aligns with other studies (quantitative direct polling and other list experiments, as well as qualitative). It also aligns with long term historical studies around positive attitudes of the russian population towards imperialism (increase in approval of government following invasions, annexations and genocides) over the past ~30 years.
How am I trying to strawman you? Critiquing your reliance on annecdotal experience (that funnily enough mirror my own - although I don’t claim my anecdotal experience means anything) is a straw man?
Show evidence for your framing around “let’s not jump to conclusions”!
What external factors? What external social influences? Be clear and direct in your claims and back them up with something more than “I feel so”!
Show how these factors are important! Going back to my original post, fully uncensored YouTube has been a click away for every russian with smartphone until recently, is this not the case? Can the same not be said about telegram?
What am I trying to accomplish with my argument?
To show reality and not let well meaning, but completely unverified platitudes (that contradict all research and even history) get in the way explaining the nature of russian imperialism.
You’re not convinced that white washing the genuine support for genocidal imperialism among a strong majority of russians is relevant because you don’t have to deal with the cruelty and degeneracy of the russians.
Why should we not make russians who support genocidal imperialism (both conceptually and as implemented by their leaders) responsible? Are they children? Of course they should pay for their actions.
And what if the reality is that a strong majority of russians are not interested in implementing any kind of change in their society?
Or that the russia as a society has dug itself into such a hole (supporting putin for 25 years and supporting genocidal imperialism for ~35 years) that there is no easy way out other than violence; something the absolute majority of allegedly “opposition minded” russians are not willing or able to engage in.
By the way, that’s totally understandable; but in that case they shouldn’t talk about magical fantasies of a democratic russia of the future appearing out of no where.
Let’s say for the sake of argument I agree with your take that genocidal imperialism of russia since it’s founding is not representative of current russian society.
How and when do you expect any changes to happen?
How - I am not asking for in-depth details, just a general outline that goes beyond “somehow in the future”.
When - 5 years? 10 years? 50 years? 100 years?
Addendum question - while we wait for these changes, what would you like people in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Chechnya and Belarus to do? Please be specific.
Sorry, I was under the impression that you hadn’t read the study because of our vastly different takeaways.
And strawman was probably the incorrect term in that context.
By external factors and social influences, I mean the social consensus that going against the government is unsafe.
That presidential candidates who have any chance of beating Putin are banned from the ballots, jailed, or coincidentally die before they’re able to build a large enough following.
That it’s safer to just play along than to put a target on your back.
If you were unable to piece together what I meant in the context of this conversation, I’m not convinced this discussion will lead anywhere productive.
Given that the study makes no claim that the statistics accurately represent the true beliefs of the Russian population, I’m suggesting that taking those numbers and concluding otherwise so you can justify calling the overhwelming majority of Russians ‘genocidal imperialists’ is irresponsible at best.
I’ve also never stated that Russians who genuinely support genocide should not be held accountable for their actions. Maybe this is a better example of a strawman argument?
Checking the latest released polls from levada, you can see that the majority of polled participants indicated support for what Russia is doing to Ukraine.
Yet, further down, it shows more participants indicated support for diplomatic resolution over military action.
I see this as a reasonable indicator that the majority of Russians are not genocidal.
And taking preference falsification and levada’s polling methods into account, the numbers could be even more in favour of both diplomatic resolution and disapproval of the war as a whole.
Maybe the overwhelming majority don’t want change in their society, or maybe they don’t have a choice (I’m talking about rigged elections, in case you were struggling to figure out the context again).
I have no idea when any societal changes within Russia will happen, I don’t happen to own a time machine.
I can only guess and assume that there won’t be any substantial publicly-expressed change in ideology while Putin is still in charge.
I’ll let people in those countries make up their own minds about what they should do, and I would hope the rest of the world will continue to support them with whatever that may be.
I’m not sure why you’re asking me these things, they aren’t really relevant to any of the points I’ve been trying to make.
I appreciate you sticking around for this argument, but I think I’m done.
That’s not a convincing answer.
Before our exchange you didn’t know what a list experiment was or what the term preference falsification meant.
Yet you were aggressively parroting the standard polemic about “innocent russians” and “all polling is wrong because it doesn’t align with my message”.
And now you’re acting all high and mighty with strawn men and “vastly different takeaways”.
You claim that the paper shows the mere existence of preference falsification. This is complete bullshit and you know it.
Preference falsification = A - B
Where:
A (~75%) = support for genocidal imperialism via regular polling
B (~65%) = support for genocidal imperialism via list experiments
If you don’t believe A or B to be true, then you can’t define whether preference falsification exists.
This is basic logic and you’ve totally failed it.
Diplomatic resolution? What’s that?
Russia continues to occupy 20% of Ukraine and then attacks again when they are ready?
Fucking awesome diplomatic resolution!
I am asking you about the hows and whys because you made a claim that we need to support russian “dissidents”.
Is it not reasonable to ask what and when we’ll see the outcome of this?
Why would you do something if you have no plan for how and when to achieve a given outcome?
You’ve thankfully never had to actually deal with russians, that’s what’s driving your petty bullshit and delusions.
Let’s hope things stay that way, for your own benefit.
Here’s a link to the study I mentioned earlier, which indicates that list experiments are not an accurate way to determine the level of preference falsification.
In it, the real response was often more than double the difference between direct polling and the list experiment results.
You continue to argue against things I’ve never said. Calling you out for saying I’ve said or argued for something which I haven’t is not acting high and mighty.
And yet, here you are doing it again…
I never said all polling is wrong, just polling that didn’t properly account for falsification, which the list method is clearly unable to do.
More of the surveyed Russians said they would prefer to talk with Ukraine over continuing military actions.
That doesn’t mean that’s what the government/Putin also believes, it means the population would generally prefer diplomacy over war.
By your same line of logic, why should anyone support LGBT people in places where it’s illegal if you don’t have any plans to change their country’s laws?
We need timeline estimates otherwise it’s pointless.
It’s a terrible defeatist argument which is not worth humoring.
I’m done talking with you now.
You’re deliberately ignoring and misinterpreting any points that don’t align with your view, and its tiring.
All that said, this has been an interesting bit of insight into the mind of a bigot.
I will need to take a more in-depth look the paper, but reading the introduction and conclusion, I don’t see such a clear critique, it sounds like you mostly made it up.
You just learned what a list experiment was just a few days ago and were arguing for a comical anecdotal view, so pardon my scepticism regarding your ability to read papers or act in good faith.
Prefer to talk to Ukraine = continue to occupation of Ukrainian territory, with torture camps and experimentation Ukrainian identity. I.e. genocidal imperialism.
We’ve seen how the russians acted after 2014, there is no reason trust them to act differently now.
You’re a delusion child, that is too cowardly to admit their mistakes and take a sober look at reality.
I’m not going to waste any more time arguing against your assumptions, false claims and flawed reasoning, when it’s clear you have no interest in thinking critically about the matter.
Congrats, you win 👍
Nothing to do with “winning” and I never framed it as such. For me “winning” is kicking the Russians out of my country, not some internet discussion (like for you).
Keep on white washing russian crimes and enabling the degeneracy of a strong majority of russian society.
Just watch that it doesn’t bite you and your family in the ass one day! Your delusion will not be of much use then!
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How would you sort those who support war from those who don’t?
It would depend on the geo-political context, currently there are less viable options.
In a different context, beyond the main mass of hardcore criminal (several million russian) that require strict punishments, you could leverage a legal proof method.
Every russian signs a legal paper outlining and their overall support for genocidal imperialism, putin, knowingly promoting false russian propaganda and so on.
Based on the of level severity of their support for genocidal imperialism, they would have to pay financial compensation and engage in global community service work (de-mining in Syria, junior janitor in an infectious disease hospital in rural Africa).
The legal paper would have a clause stating that if you claim you never supported genocidal imperialism (as certified in the legal paper), but later evidence comes up that you were actually supportive of russian degeneracy, you lose all your assets and will be required to do two decade of global community service (or go to jail). This clause would be valid indefinitely for the life of the person.
Note, I am not saying the above-mentioned approach is viable right now. I am trying to show that there methods to create incentives for russians to be open about their support for genocidal imperialism.
Do you have a link to the qualitative research in the Siberian town? Would like to read it specifically
meduza.io/…/a-kogda-uzhe-pobeda-to-nasha-budet
The article is in russian. Very stuffy and verbose writing style.
They’ve only released an in-depth preview news article. I believe the full paper (with an English translation) will be released later this month.
Not really: www.nytimes.com/2014/…/how-to-punish-putin.html ; this is just days after the annexation. I’m no fan of Navalny for various reasons (his nationalist views, xenophobic comments and narratives, etc), but he was very much against all Putin’s shenanigans in Ukraine, and vehemently anti-war.
What are you on about? Name one of them who supported the war. Most of them were jailed due to their anti-war positions.
The NYT article is aimed at western audiences, of course they are going to present a more humanistic pitch.
English language content from the russian “opposition” is often misleading.
In russian, Navalniy initially clearly stated that “Ukrainians, you should forget about Crimea” and that “Crimea is not a ham sandwich, you can’t just give it back!”
He later did a PR pass on his position with a call for an “independent referendum”; a typical russian imperialist mindset. The Ukrainian constitution only allows for national referendums on such matters.
Navalniy own head goon even confirmed that they supported the annexation of Crimea because the vast majority of russian are imperialists:
time.com/…/navalny-ukraine-russia-leonid-volkov/
He was most definitely not anti-war. The russian invasion of Ukraine began with the annexation of Crimea; which was supported by Navaliy and his team.
One of Yashin’s responsibilities as a deputy in 2018 was conscription. Russia has been at war with Ukraine since 2014.
Now I understand for Yashin the “real” war started in 2022 and he was just “looking to promote democracy by taking part in municipal politics”.
But that’s irrelevant if you are from Donbas and your family was forced to leave in 2014. Or if you language and religion are being prosecuted In Crimea.
Kara-Murza went a tired rant about how we sanctions need to be weakened
Pivaovarov stated opposition minded Russians shouldn’t donate to the AFU. Imagine dissidents of the Nazi regime (who took part in a prisoner exchange) stated that opposition minded Germans shouldn’t be supporting the war effort against Nazi Germany.
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Sometimes you shoot yourself in the head. Twice.
I don’t think a grassroots revolution will be taking place anytime soon, but this is aimed at the young people of Russia who are against the war. The old people there love Putin but I suspect they also aren’t watching YouTube.
The majority of the young people in Russia are genocidal imperialists. Support for extermination of other countries is of course higher in the older generations, but that doesn’t change the fact that a solid majority of young (e.g. 18 to 29) are genocidal imperialists.
I understand that it might be reassuring to repeat platitudes like “young people of russia are against the war”, but this is clearly not true.
Even the framing is suspect. What do you mean by “the war”; the full-scale invasion? In Ukraine, the war started in 2014 with annexation of Crimea and russian invasion of Donbas.
May I know where you found the info that a solid majority of young Russians (well, I think you only talk about those that did not already leave) supports the war?
A tiny % left and even among them there are many genocidal nationalists and fake opposition types.
Look up any research on the topic Russian Field, Levada, LSE List Experiment on support from the war among Russians.
I believe the general trend was that every age category had a majority and that at one point the 30-40 age group had slightly lower support for russian annexation and destruction of Ukrainian identity than the 18 -29 age group.
I don’t know those sources, but I fear those aren’t really representative
Maybe someone wants to dig, I have no time for that right now…
I hear that all the time, “but what about the challenges of polling under an autocracy?”, as if they were the first one to think about it.
But if you show alternative methodologies that account for preference falsification and the estimates for preference falsification turn out to be low, you never hear back from people.
But this approach is understandable, people in the west have a very primitive understanding of russian culture and russian constantly code switch when pushing polemics for western audiences and when speaking in russian.
I can not 🤷🏻♀️that is why I asked, would be nice finding reputable sources that leak outta there
But "look at any research” does not imply good sources…
I mean I did suggest you go to Levada, Russian Field and LSE List Experiment research on the extent of russian support for the war.
All these research series are very easy to search for online. This is not secret or paywalled research.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/20531680221108328
I look into those regularly. Those are credible sources that are often used by our scientists, but you have to be very careful with statistics during war periods.
What do you think the majority of people hear when asked, “Do you support actions of Russian military in Ukraine?”. They hear, “Are you a traitor?” and answer accordingly. The majority (4 out of 5, I believe, if not more) refuse to answer at all. So, it’s not exactly representative.
What we look at instead is questions that are not this direct. Such as “Do you think Russia should continue or start peace talks?”. The majority (58%) is for peace talks. This number has increased since September 2022 by 10%, whilst the number of pro-war people decreased from 44% to 34%. Their quality also changed. For “absolutely should start peace talks” went from 21% (out of all votes) up to 26%, whilst for “absolutely should continue military actions” went from 29% down to 21%.
The longer things continue, the less support Russia’s government has. That’s what can be said for certain. The other conclusion we can derive is that war isn’t popular.
Edit: Oh, and the youth, 67% of the youth (18-24) is for peace talks, 23% pro-war. 65% for ages 25-39, only 25% pro-war.
The vast majority of pro-war people are elderly. Can you guess who also watches the TV the most? And who the TV is controlled by?
For the full picture, I’ll also add “they started it, so it’s their responsibility, we had no choice in it” This phrase explains the whole mentality of Russians very well.
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Not a Russian political expert, but the fact Putin keeps calling it “denazification” and a “special military operation” leads me to believe there’s a lot of people who don’t support a full blown war.
Why do you say this?
If 75% of russians support the “denazification” of Ukraine, that says a lot about them, no?
Because if their government won’t give them the full story it implies they might not like it.
So you’re saying russians genuinely believe that since 2014 they’ve been “fighting Nazism in Ukraine” and this is not a genocidal imperialist war?
As I mentioned in my OP, you do know that every russian had uncensored youtube within a single click on their smartphone until the last month or so? Btw, the YT app is available in russian and there is a lot of russian language content.
This makes no sense!
I’m not saying they believe that, I’m just commenting on what their government is saying.
I have very little knowledge on what the average Russian citizen thinks.
Is this a new development? If so could it be due to the Ukrainian incursion? I thought telegram was more popular there for that stuff
I have a slightly different take: I think it’s a positive thing because the sooner we destroy YouTube, the sooner YouTube will be destroyed.
Feels like your priorities might be out of order.
My priorities are thus:
They know what they did.
“YouTube delenda est”
“Fiat justitia, ruat YouTube”
What did they do?
Oh, they know.
damn. how would russians watch unwanted ads now?
AFAIK they didn’t have to watch ads since the sanctions took effect, because Google wasn’t allowed to monetize them.
Wow. Can’t wait for this empire to sanction itself.
Prime, Netflix, Hulu, any news website, pornhub, etc…
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty is straight up State department propaganda.
lemmy.ml is straight up lemmygrad / hexbear Tankie propaganda.
While this is somewhat true (state funded, but with some level of independence), your statement doesn’t jive with reality.
I follow RFE/RL in both English and several other languages. Their reporting is far better than many multi-billion dollar private news companies in the West.
And it’s not a minor difference either, the western news companies are not even close.
What an absurd response. This is akin to saying RT isn’t Russian state propaganda.
RT and RFE/RF are state media, but there is a difference. The former does not enjoy freedom and the latter does because of its firewall that prevents political interference.
Although the Trump administration tried to remove firewalls and introduce its inference that could have been harmful during that period.
I think you mean it’s designed to prevent partisan interference. RFE/RL’s purpose is to support US foreign policy which makes it inherently political. It is undeniably a propaganda outlet and therefore comparable in function to RT. You may trust American propaganda over Russian propaganda but that doesn’t mean the former is not propaganda.
Just a question, what do you know about RFE/RL?
Do you follow any of their news program series?
Do you speak any other languageslioe Ukrainian, Belarusian or Georgian?
I do check out RFE/RL and its sister outlets from time to time. It’s pretty obvious that their agenda aligns 1 for 1 with American foreign policy objectives. To be fair though, the US wouldn’t fund RFE/RL if it didn’t effectively dupe people into believing it was an unbiased source.
Is there anything else that you noticed beyond “aligns with US foreign policy objectives”.
Did you only read it in English? What other language services from them did you read.
How’s that relevant? Do you have counter evidence for any of the points I made or are you just desperately trying to prove you’re not a dupe?
I agree with you, I am very desperately trying to prove something to someone who can’t even read the work of RFE/RL!
Total dupe!
“I trust the United States government and so should you!” -Alphane Moon
There times when it is reasonable to trust the US government.
You should never trust anything that comes out of russia; even their “opposition” (let alone their government thugs).
I’m sure everything Russia China and NK do WRONG is just *propaganda, too.
Isn’t that right .ml user?
Propaganda is usually truthful or exaggerated truth. It’s the framing that is important. Some facts are focused on. Some facts are omitted.
I acknowledge that Russia, China and the DPRK have made mistakes and even done things that are deeply questionable. But I’m interested in comparing their mistakes or misguided actions to those of the most powerful military empire on earth. The one involved in hundreds of military actions and dozens of coups since its inception. The one with the largest per capita prison population on earth. The one which controls many of the world’s financial levers.
There is a difference in the scale of their mistakes or bad actions. Propaganda distorts that difference of scale. It focuses on the crimes of the “enemies” / “axis of evil” / “rogue states” but doesn’t examine context or culpability of the empire. They’ll choose one conflict, downplay 9 others, and give a one-sided view of that one conflict.
That’s how propaganda works. Every state produces propaganda. One state produces billions of dollars of propaganda each year.
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.
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.
Is this the Russian Government censoring them, or is YouTube just pulling out because the sanctions mean they can’t run ads to Russian IPs?
the biggest ISP in Russia, rostelecom, started throttling youtube by 80% last month and is planning a full blocking. It’s a curious choice though… even the hardest most Z people are not happy about it.
It is a double-edged sword, because it would leave them blind to certain news without propaganda. Which could have direct and indirect consequences.
there is a browser extension that loads websites without middleman interference, a lot of people are using that. apparently it even unblocks twitter and some other sites.
China is doing pretty okay with it.
China has ten times more people than Russia, they have a big enough market to support a full fledged alternative. Russia does not
Good point
Let’s hope this will lead to Putin’s support evaporating.
The government claims it’s Google’s hardware getting outdated. Google says that’s bs.
I think that it’s convenient how they’re telling that to us right before throttling YouTube only with certain providers (and seems to be with only certain regions as well).
YouTube was running like garbage for me in Texas earlier today while everything else was fine. Are they having issues in general?
Yoooo peertube in russia???
Russia has rutube and yandex video ( i think)
Don’t forget VK Video
Thought vk was a twitter/instagram thingy
I thought it was more like Facebook.
They’ve been branching out into video, even added a dedicated video tab to the main ui
Oh
They’re crap. People will be and are looking for ways to evade restrictions.
Right now, they’re only limiting speed with certain providers in certain locations. There are at least three ways that I know of to avoid it.
The thing is, I don’t know how far they’ll take it. Blocking YouTube is a major political risk. Practically, everybody uses it for one reason or another. So, unlike their “special military operation,” this (as mercantile as it sounds) will potentially have a bigger impact on everybody’s lives. But you really can never be sure with our mafia-in-charge anymore.
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I’m going to miss the one Russian I follow. Maybe this will help another alternative platform take its place.
Cant Russians make money from yt due to that Ukraine thing
Not unless you’re making videos from abroad.
YouTube doesn’t serve ads when viewed from Russia anymore, so there is no revenue from this audience. And you can’t take money out from within Russia due to sanctions.
Russian YouTubers are pretty much screwed and have to re-locate. The only other option is earning from product placements.
Oh
And I really liked the Russian Youtubers… Nonetheless, it’s a different kind of censorship and it might just lead to more propaganda…
It’s just so strange to read how Americans blame Putin for everything almost the rest of the world (demographically speaking) blames their government for.
Obvious Russian troll is obvious.
Come on you can do better than this. You’r not even being entertainingly bad.
You need to improve or else you will fall out of a window.
Sure, champion, your attention saved my life today. Let me get back to my trolling, spying, forced and commie stuff.
Russian here. Yes, this is indeed true. They’ve been throttling the bandwidth for a good while before, even yt music was slow. GoodbyeDPI lets you bypass the blocks for now. Idk what to expect next tbh
I mean you could still use frontends out there but don’t you all start using them at once. I use them too you know.
Ого не знал что кто-то из русских здесь есть:)
нас дюжины! дюжины!
Всего две дюжины…
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это же только сервера русские, я сам на Lemmy.world
Hold on! How about Disney?
But seriously, before anyone puts a hole in putins shit basket, can you please ask him how he got the YouTube and Google to stop?
Maybe we could do the same!? We do have Mexico, should we invade Mexico? I’m fine with it, I was born there. I’m sure many others would agree conmigo.
Or maybe it’s a secret Mafia connection?
Thought it has already banned? Thought they had the same view as Chinese government to limited information so they can better brainwash people in Russia with propaganda.