Belarusians deserve sympathy. Not only can they only watch what the government allows on TV, but from now on they will experience exactly the same on the Internet. The videobel.by service, the Belarusian equivalent of YouTube, is now online. It has only one star. Yes, his…
Lukashenko got offended by YouTube and ordered to make his own
How did it come to this? Has Belarus tried to build its own video content service? The main reason was the policy of YouTube, which is not favorable to propaganda content. The platform consistently removed materials shared by Belarusian propaganda, including those in which Alexander Lukashenko addresses the nation. The leader of Belarus could not afford such an insult. He demanded the creation of his own, Belarusian equivalent of YouTube, which has just hit the Internet. The service, in which the star is none other than himself.
Belarusians will not tolerate more propaganda. Unless they are forced…
It is easy to predict that the interest in Belarusian propaganda content in other countries is rather negligible. For this reason, any financial success of the service and gaining greater popularity are simply out of the question. Belarusians themselves are also reluctant to the new platform. As the service quoted TVP Info Mikhail Klimarov from the Internet Defense Association, on TV they show the same thing. Why watch it on the internet again?
The only way to force Belarusian citizens to use videobel.by seems to be effective blocking of foreign websites, led by YouTube. The catch is that it probably won’t do any good. Knowledge of how to use VPN will spread very quickly among people, and even if they don’t, they simply have no intention of watching a government propaganda service. And why would they?
Source: TVP Info
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