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How does engineering office relate to censorship?

• wslh 12y ago
  If they have local presence they can be pressured in any way in a Russian jurisdiction.
  • icebraining 12y ago
    But if "the internet search engine company might retain some employees to assist in sales, business partnerships, user support, marketing and communications", won't they still have a local presence?
    • wslh 12y ago
      It careful says "might" and "assist". In the best case this means minimal presence in Russia that can be unplugged immediately. We don't know if this will happen using the Google company or transferring employees to a another entity and formally outsourcing it.
      • seanmcdirmid 12y ago
        The presence could be purely vendors or a Russian company acting as a representing. More like a consulate, like they still have in China.
• evgen 12y ago
  Engineering offices usually require access to code repos and back-end production servers. This is the path you need to follow if you want to put pressure on a company or flip an employee to act as a spy within the company on your behalf. A sales office or a lot of user ops can be treated like remote contractors and only given access to a limited subset of the company that is needed to do their job. You can also burn a sales office and walk away from it in a heartbeat, but engineering offices usually have people who have valuable company info and state in their heads...