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by ushakov 1463 days ago
can you name any Russian company that doesn't?

obeying to Kremlin is just an aspect of running business in Russia

the only option would be not to operate in Russia at all. Yandex can't do this, because their audience is primarily in Russia
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lotusmars 1463 days ago
Well they've made their choice and silenced our protest and opposition, and later spewed pro-war anti-Ukrainian propaganda using country's largest media (Yandex News).

If you're profiteering from our suffering and choose Kremlin's needs over ours, don't be suprised then when we tell you to shove your AI models and your search.

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ushakov 1463 days ago
they're selling Yandex News to VK (Mail.ru)
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lotusmars 1463 days ago
It's still working as usual and they announced the transition after 8 years of warmongering and blacklisting all opposition resources. And only when sanctions hit.

Now they scramble to present a whitewashed image to Western public. They will probably put themselves forward as great contributors to open source.

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joshsyn 1463 days ago
Who's we? I am not in this together. So change it to "I". I don't care about you lot... lmao
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CRConrad 1461 days ago
> Who's we?

From context, pretty obviously "we Ukrainians". Didn't do too well in elementary reading, did you?

> I am not in this together. So change it to "I". I don't care about you lot... lmao

Thank you for so effectively demonstrating what a despicable excuse for a human being you are. I'll do my best to remember this when next I come across anything from you.

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orbital-decay 1463 days ago
Not really, it's very different for Yandex in particular. Along with several other companies like Vimpelcom, they started the "Safe Internet League", an organization which exploited the think of the children argument to build the censorship regime from scratch. They practically created the original censorship laws, or participated in the creation, when they were in the best position to resist the government (and had the incentive to do so). As an example, Telegram successfully resisted the censorship while having much less leverage, much later.

Of course Yandex likes to pose as the victim of censorship, but the truth is that they are the censors themselves. They've been steamrolled by a runaway process they helped to create.

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blackhaz 1463 days ago
Which doesn't excuse them at all. They are full-on supporting the war machine and bloodshed and bear responsibility.
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