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But is Yandex government owned? What about Russians abroad that send money back home to their families, and a percentage of that ends up going via taxes to Puti
by sevg 4mo ago
But is Yandex government owned? What about Russians abroad that send money back home to their families, and a percentage of that ends up going via taxes to Putin? Are we boycotting all Russians everywhere globally?
- tumdum_ 4mo agoYes, we boycott anyone who supports Putin’s regime.
- sevg 4mo agoHate to break it to you, but not all Russians support Putin.
- develop7 4mo ago[dead]
- notpushkin 4mo agoI think the OP’s point still stands, but it is a fairly weak argument. I am Russian and I do oppose Putin’s regime. My family is in Russia, though. If I send them money (which), and they pay for, say, groceries, which are taxed, some tiny part of my money will be used to fund the regime and the war. I am very disappointed but there is no way for me to just yank all my family and friends and relocate them to a less fucked-up jurisdiction. Doing business with Yandex is a whole other beast. Kagi can choose to use a worse search engine API which doesn’t involve paying money to a Russian company. Are there some market forces at hand here? Maybe a lot of Russian expats pay for Kagi because it has good Russian-language results? I don’t know. Edit: > But is Yandex government owned? It isn’t, but I really doubt it has no ties with it. It would be interesting to trace and see if Yandex Cloud’s international branch money gets back to its Russian counterpart, or if they are two separate things.
- tumdum_ 4mo ago[flagged]
- sevg 4mo agoThat is unfortunately just plain racism. (For the record, I despise what Putin is doing.)
- axegon_ 4mo ago[flagged]
- chadgpt3 4mo agoAmericans too, or just Russians?
- axegon_ 4mo ago[flagged]
- chadgpt3 4mo agoI see. To summarize, you believe all Russians are bad because a Russian person killed your friend and all Americans are good because no American people killed any of your friends?
- axegon_ 4mo ago[flagged]
- BYazfVCcq 4mo agoIs it really that hard to believe people don't want to support a state that has brutally occupied half of Europe for 50 years and is right now murdering Ukrainians every day? Russia is waging a hybrid war against Europe (and the West in general), there's no way I'd give one of their biggest tech companies even a cent.
- orphea 4mo agopeople don't want to support a state that has brutally occupied half of Europe Sure. The comments above were about Russians though, not the state.
- aboardRat4 4mo ago
- tokai 4mo ago[flagged]
- sevg 4mo agoNo, interacting with Russian people does not mean supporting genocide. Please raise the quality of your comments here :)
- tokai 4mo ago[flagged]
- sevg 4mo agoYour stance seems to be that interacting with any Russian means supporting genocide, regardless of if they support Putin. Which is so absurd as to be likely ragebait. So yes, it’s a quality issue :) And if you’re discriminating against all Russians based on their government, even though not all Russians support Putin, then that is unfortunately just racism.
- TiredOfLife 4mo agoWith those in russia and majority of those outside it does.
- distances 4mo agoAll businesses based in Russia should be boycotted, also second-hand (so businesses that deal with other businesses based in Russia). If I knew someone was sending money to Russia, I would of course avoid any contact (let alone financial ties) with them.
- Ray20 4mo ago> But is Yandex government owned? In fact, yes. Yandex is totally controlled by Putin's presidential administration. > What about Russians abroad that send money back home to their families It doesn't seem like a significant factor. The main flow of money into Russia are payments for fossil fuel and trade balance with China.