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"Arkady Yurievich Volozh is a Russian businessperson with business interests in IT and technology. He is the founder and the CEO of Yandex. Yandex is the larges

"Arkady Yurievich Volozh is a Russian businessperson with business interests in IT and technology. He is the founder and the CEO of Yandex. Yandex is the largest Internet company in Russia, operating Russia's most popular search engine. Russian State-owned banks such as Sberbank and VTB are shareholders and investors in Yandex. In 2019, Yandex agreed to a restructuring that gave a “golden share” to a newly formed Public Interest Foundation built to “defend the Russian Federation interests”. Through the Public Interest Foundation, the Government of the Russian Federation is able to have a veto over a defined list of issues, such as the sale of material IP and the sale or transfer of Russian users’ personal data to foreign companies, both of which are deemed to affect Russia’s “national interest”. Yandex is also responsible for promoting State media and narratives in its search results, and deranking and removing content critical of the Kremlin, such as content related to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. 3.6.2022’ Volozh is a leading businessperson involved in economic sectors providing a substantial source of revenue to the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine. Furthermore, as founder and CEO of Yandex, he is supporting, materially or financially, the Government of the Russian Federation and is responsible for supporting actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine." https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L:2022:153:FULL&from=EN https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...

OrvalWintermute 4y ago
- pell 4y ago
  Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities?
  - aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
    On paper?!
    - pell 4y ago
      Yes.
      - aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
        Good luck.
        pell 4y ago
        It’s not difficult to name shady, unlawful, unjust - you name it - behavior by the US government. It’s not difficult because to find any of it I can simply go to Google and in less than a second I’ll have a list of it all. Try that on Yandex or VKontakte. Good luck. If you have no evidence or even circumstantial hints your comment is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.
  - OrvalWintermute 4y ago
    > Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities? The golden share is not the equivalence of direct ownership, it is rather a control mechanism. Just like how much of our BigTech is controlled to an extent by the US govt, and how previously, congress was able to trade on insider information. Now, when we are talking control/ownership, are you asking for directly, or indirectly, or controlled? Most obvious of course is https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ A list of companies that got acquired can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel This is to say nothing of other huge amount of federal funds, or the soft control exerted through politically connected billionaires which is actually one of the preferred mechanisms in both Russia, and the US. Us with our bigtech billionaires, in Russia with their Oligarchs. On a daily basis, section 230 reminder threats are being used against BigTech to remind them that they still work for the Establishment political parties. Here is a singular example, of which there are hundreds or more. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-sweeping-immunity-enable-big-tech-bad-behavior https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-s...
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OrvalWintermute 4y ago

pell 4y ago
Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities?
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  On paper?!
  - pell 4y ago
    Yes.
    - aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
      Good luck.
      - pell 4y ago
        It’s not difficult to name shady, unlawful, unjust - you name it - behavior by the US government. It’s not difficult because to find any of it I can simply go to Google and in less than a second I’ll have a list of it all. Try that on Yandex or VKontakte. Good luck. If you have no evidence or even circumstantial hints your comment is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.
- OrvalWintermute 4y ago
  > Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities? The golden share is not the equivalence of direct ownership, it is rather a control mechanism. Just like how much of our BigTech is controlled to an extent by the US govt, and how previously, congress was able to trade on insider information. Now, when we are talking control/ownership, are you asking for directly, or indirectly, or controlled? Most obvious of course is https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ A list of companies that got acquired can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel This is to say nothing of other huge amount of federal funds, or the soft control exerted through politically connected billionaires which is actually one of the preferred mechanisms in both Russia, and the US. Us with our bigtech billionaires, in Russia with their Oligarchs. On a daily basis, section 230 reminder threats are being used against BigTech to remind them that they still work for the Establishment political parties. Here is a singular example, of which there are hundreds or more. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-sweeping-immunity-enable-big-tech-bad-behavior https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-s...

aaron695 4y ago