A better term than 'economics' is just power, where money is one factor. Putin wants more power vis-a-vis his proles and if he can strong-arm a company into do

A better term than 'economics' is just power, where money is one factor. Putin wants more power vis-a-vis his proles and if he can strong-arm a company into doing something, he will. Apple and Google have a certain kind of power, governments do, but most companies have very little flex. Specifically 'up and comers' i.e. startups must have to face some weird challenges there, certainly in the area of 'content filtering' and government access we are only scratching the surface. I can only imagine what kind of deals FB has made with various regimes, and he lengths they will have done through to obfuscate it.