[jetzzz]

Why didn't they remove Navalny's videos from YouTube then?

[vbezhenar]

I guess because Russian authorities did not make a proper requests for doing so.

[machomaster]

They have though. Kremlin has made plenty of effort in trying to delete individual videos and the whole channels.

So far Google/Youtube have not complied. Let's see what happens after today's developments...

[nicce]

It is a totally different thing. App store apps are localized, Youtube is currently global.

[vetinari]

Not really; Youtube has a mechanism for geographically restricting videos. Germans could talk for hours about it ;)

[nicce]

Two different things; removing something from everyone versus blocking something from specific userbase.

[vetinari]

If you read it again, you will find it is the same thing.

[nicce]

Not really. It is totally different policy. Somebody asking removing content from the whole world, because of their limited local legalization versus just not showing it for this limited area. From the perspective of some users, it might be the same result. However, the content is still there and can be accessed from the different route.

[aembleton]

Not all videos are available everywhere, probably for copyright reasons. It does mean that their system is capable of region blocking though.

[nicce]

There is a difference on availability and removal.

[realusername]

Everything is global, I hate that modern tech tries to bring back some kind of "illusion" of borders.

[chupasaurus]

Navalny's organization FBK has an extremist status given by a Russian court, so legally speaking all their YT channels could be wiped in a split second.