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Google Began Censoring Search Results in Russia, Reports Say

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Google Began Censoring Search Results in Russia, Reports Say

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2/7/19
Google has started to remove certain entries from its search results in Russia in compliance with long-standing demands from the authorities, the Vedomosti business daily reported Wednesday. Russia fined Google $7,500 in November 2018 for failing to take down certain search results. New regulations that went into effect in November 2017 require search engines to delete results to websites blacklisted by Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor. Roskomnadzor, which bans websites containing prohibited information on topics such as child pornography, drugs and suicide, has also been accused of being a tool of state censorship. The regulator has blocked access to corruption investigations by opposition activist Alexei Navalny, the LinkedIn social network and the Telegram messaging app, and is currently investigating BBC Russia over possible violations. On Thursday, a Roskomnadzor spokesman told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency that the regulator had established a "constructive dialogue" with Google over filtering content. "We are fully satisfied with the dialogue at this time," Vadim Ampelonsky, the spokesman, was cited as saying. Google said in its transparency report published earlier this week that Russia accounted for 75 percent of all global requests to delete content in January-July 2018. Google Russia has reportedly declined to comment.

Just so you are all aware, in order to remain in the Russia market, Google has acquiesced to the authoritarian state's demands and is filtering content and search results for the Putin regime.

In essence, Google has agreed to enforce censorship on Russian citizens for peanuts (i.e. the Russian market share of the global Google empire).
 
This is expected when the dictator running the country is an ex-KGB communist who is slowly, but surely reviving the old USSR.
 
Just so you are all aware, in order to remain in the Russia market, Google has acquiesced to the authoritarian state's demands and is filtering content and search results for the Putin regime.

In essence, Google has agreed to enforce censorship on Russian citizens for peanuts (i.e. the Russian market share of the global Google empire).

Welcome to unfettered capitalism. There is a demand for censorship in Russia and Google is meeting that demand. Isn't unfettered capitalism so great?
 
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