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Interesting, but why? Just because it's "hate the Russians" month? What was the reason for hiding these items in the first place? Was there a previous agreem
by mikece 5y ago
Interesting, but why? Just because it's "hate the Russians" month? What was the reason for hiding these items in the first place? Was there a previous agreement with Russia to keep secrets for them? To what extent is Google hiding the secrets of other oppressive regimes, such as China?
- mc4ndr3 5y agoThe CIA wants the GRU to know that we know.
- mikece 5y agoThe CIA has more effective ways of flipping the bird to the GRU than futzing with Google Earth/maps.
- sidewndr46 5y agoGiven the expansive budget of the CIA, I would assume if they wanted to offend them they'd probably leave a handwritten note left inside of a "secure location" somewhere in Russia.
- lesuorac 5y agoYou don't need to be an oppressive regime to get google maps to hide stuff. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-blur-your-house-in-googles-street-view-1845050158 https://lifehacker.com/how-to-blur-your-house-in-googles-str...
- yakak 5y agoI think Google pulled out of all Russian interests about a month back, so they no longer need to censor anything for Russia. This might also be a warning for China that there's still plenty they censor for their rocky relationship that may cease to be censored if there is no relationship.
- netsharc 5y agoGoogle draws borders differently if you're opening Google Maps from different countries (e.g. India and Pakistan), it used to only offer bitmaps (instead of vector graphics) of S. Korea to comply with the law there, the satellite images of China are still offset compared to the real world to also comply with the laws... So the answer is, they do it to remain compliant with the laws.