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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by stickfigure on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:33PM (#30472029)
This is unfair. It's a cyber attack on Youtube, and I'm sure the people at Youtube are frantically working on mitigations. It's an ongoing battle and hopefully Russia is burning their bot networks over this.
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by anamax on Saturday February 26, 2022 @11:34AM (#30479030)
It's completely fair - YouTube picked a business model that has certain benefits and costs and this is one of the costs.

They are happy to reap the benefits so it is fair to put the costs on them.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by stickfigure on Sunday February 27, 2022 @12:50AM (#30485758)
Do you think they could be prepared in advance for this kind of attack? Maybe, but you are not the man in the arena. I don't know for certain, but I know at least one engineer on the youtube team and I'm willing to bet that they're frantically writing software to match a new and painful set of assumptions about how the world works.

How are you helping?

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by anamax on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:05PM (#30495868)
> Do you think they could be prepared in advance for this kind of attack?

This is not a new attack in either type or scope. It's merely more visible.

> How are you helping?

Not at all. I don't benefit from YouTube's business model so why do you think that I have some obligation to help YouTube?

Of course, since you think that I have some obligation, you surely do. What are you doing besides attacking people who point out that this is a foreseeable consequences of YT's business decisions?

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