I earn a little spare cash as an English tutor over the Internet. My student is a little girl in Russia. During today’s lesson she asked me if YouTube isn’t working my country either. She said that people are trying to make RuTube to replace it.

I can’t explain to her why it doesn’t work for her but works for me. Either I must lie or break the law.

Kids are naive and innocent. It breaks the heart.

  • lugal
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    Aren’t there proxies? I don’t know if they work in Russia tho

    • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      There are proxies and VPNs. My student is a little girl who innocently asked if YouTube is not working in my country either. It is this that is depressing.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Why is you explaining it breaking the law? Can you not mention sanctions either? RuTube is also already a thing, it started in like the earlu 2000s during the brief Russian tech boom, alongside VK, LiveJournal, Ozon, avito, mail dot ru and Ramblr which were all the same thing - copy of a western site with some changes.