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And it was banned in Ukraine for being a national threat (which, as a Ukrainian, I fully support). Should also be a hint

• eimrine 6y ago
  Sadly that you are supporting the censorship of yourself. Especially about banning Yandex whose maps showed Crimea as Ukrainian's for any visitor with Ukrainian IP.
  • filoleg 6y ago
    While I am, overall, fully with you on censorship and don't think it is acceptable, this specific case is a bit different. It is one thing to censor something due to a hypothetical possibility of a threat or due to some "dangerous ideas". But it is another thing to censor a tech giant from an authoritarian country (with the government of which that said tech giant is almost definitely collaborating) that is literally physically invading your borders by force and taking your territory using shady tactics and excuses ("these are not our soldiers, they are just some unmarked militia that has access to our top tier weaponry... oh wait, jk, we lied, it was our troops all along"). Especially given the fact that tech giants in Russia are all, pretty much, under a thumb of the government. Just check up on what happened to Pavel Durov (the Telegram guy, previously known for creating another russian tech giant VK.com aka russian version of FB), he ended up having to give up his company and flee the country, because he didn't collaborate with the regime readily. And no, I am not a russophobe, I grew up in Russia myself, and I am not the kind to fall for the "every hack is now attributed to russian government-funded hackers" hysteria that seems to have polluted mass media in the west recently. Which is why, imo, it is important to emphasize when the real threats happen and address them, just like Ukraine did with the Yandex ban.