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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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