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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by foverzar on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:12PM (#34776478)
What surprises me is that these kind of thing often get treated as "all or nothing". Why remove it, instead of a geo block? 451 HTTP code is a thing.

Stories like that always make me think that this is always some kind of a political play on the side of western media platforms, likely coming from ex-spooks they like to hire so much. Especially judging by how e.g. in Russia, YouTube has learned to play nice over time and generally doesn't act like it's "delete everywhere or leave as is" kind of choice.

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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by Kalium on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:17PM (#34776576)
A geo block brings with it some issues. They are in principle and often in practice evadable. This means it looks like a half-measure by people who don't care about adhering to local laws.
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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by CommanderData on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:28PM (#34777892)
I'm unsure but the original links are still available online on Twitter that go to YouTube error pages and the request from the Indian govnement is public too.

The original rush to remove the content was fueled by alot of publicity around the documentary.

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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by foverzar on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:16PM (#34780666)
My point is that YouTube could have just geoblocked the content and be fully compliant. Everything beyond that is kinda their own initiative.
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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by IlliOnato on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:31PM (#34777932)
Because they can? Because they don't want it to be watched outside of India either? By foreigners, by millions of Indians abroad, by millions in India on VPN?
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Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet by foverzar on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:14PM (#34780637)
Can they though? Because they actually can't. They can only regulate the content accessible from India IPs or hosted on their territory.

Everything beyond this is YouTube's own doing, really.

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