It can be argued, that Yandex didn't do enough to fight the Putin's regime, but: 1. How realistic is to expect something like this from Corporations? How much h

It can be argued, that Yandex didn't do enough to fight the Putin's regime, but: 1. How realistic is to expect something like this from Corporations? How much have American corporations fought against American terrorism or attacks on freedoms (e.g. of speech)? Exactly. 2. It absolutely does not mean that they were an arm of the government. Among the tech giants, even without the Russia caveats, Yandex was definitely a good guy, with good ethics and core, with people who cared (and who helped a lot in personal capacities). A very telling sign is a list of Western countries that participate in the Yemen war, but want to keep it a secret from their citizens. Yes, they fully know that what they are doing is wrong. No, they don't want to stop doing the evil, they only want for people not to know. This is a pattern. Remember illegal CIA prisons all around the world, torturing people? Democracy often means that bad deeps must be better camouflaged/hidden, not that thr actions and people doing the deciding are inherently better.