they also blocked navalny s you tube videos, videos that navalny and his allies posted, the smart voting strategy. google blocked the videos at the demand of putin s government. today the washington post published an eerily resonant story, along those same lines, except this time it involves the ceo of facebook mark zuckerberg, and the nation of vietnam. here s how they put it, late last year, mark zuckerberg faced a choice, comply with demands from vietnam s ruling communist party to center antigovernment dissidence or risk getting knocked offline in one of facebook s most lucrative markets, in the months leading up to vietnam s process in january, facebook increased censorship of anti-state posts giving the government in vietnam near total control over the
voting, the smart voting strategy. google blocked those videos, again at the request, at the demand of putin s government. today the washington post published an eerily resident story, along those same, lines except this time involves the ceo of facebook marks occurred, and the nation of vietnam. here s how they put. it late last year marks a covert faced a choice, comply with demands from vietnam s ruling communist party, to censor anti government dissidents, or risk getting knocked off line in one of facebook s most lucrative face book markets. in the months leading up to vietnam s process, for choosing new political leaders in january, facebook significantly-y crease censorship, of anti state posts, giving the government in vietnam, their total control over the platform, according to local activists and free speech advocates. that decision, and mark zuckerberg is reportedly personal involvement in it,
days before their national election last month, the russian government started harassing google and apple, literally threatening to prosecute russian-based employees of those companies if google and apple didn t pearl the app from their app stores. and google and apple said, sure, okay. no problem. they caved. right before the election, the companies pulled the app from their platforms, letting the russian government have even more control over their already rigged elections and kneecapping the opposition in their best effort, their best hope to finally stand up candidates against putin s party. google went one step further, they also blocked navalny s youtube videos. they blocked videos that navalny and his allies posted, the smart voting strategy. google blocked the videos at the request, at the demand of putin s government.
week s elections. it disappeared from the two technology platforms just as voting got under way. putin s government pressured apple and google to take this navalny app out of the app stores, and they caved. and that was not the end of it in terms of the caving. over the weekend as russians voted, google also blocked videos. google owns youtube. google blocked youtube videos that navalny s allies posted on youtube to, again, help coordinate this smart voting strategy. they blocked those videos at the request, at the demand of putin s government. well, now bloomberg news reports that employees of google are increasingly upset about the company s repeated and consequential capitulation of putin s threats. quote, staff members complained over the weekend about google s decision and on a messaging board within the breeding ground
youtube to, again, coordinate the smart voting strategy. they blocked those videos at the request and demand of putin s government. well now, bloomberg news reports that employees of google are increasingly upset about the company s repeated and consequential capitulation to russian threats. staff members complained over the weekend about google s decision in internal forms and on a message board, that has served as a breeding ground for protest in the company. google spoofed its corporate creed about prioritizing users. one picture depicts a man reading a magazine below the slogan, putin the user first. putting these your first? putin the user first. since its formation, google has used the motto to make information universally accessible and useful. one name image being circulated by employees despite a map of the world where the russian voting app was allowed. every country was marked,