Google employees reportedly furious company removed Russian voting app amid legal threat

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The employees have reportedly blasted Google for capitulating to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

have grown more powerful over the past decade, so have government ambitions to harness that power for their own ends.

Google also denied access to two documents on its online service Google Docs that listed candidates endorsed by Smart Voting, and YouTube blocked similar videos. Big Tech companies have generally agreed to abide by country-specific rules for content takedowns and other issues in order to operate in these countries. That can range from blocking posts about Holocaust denial in Germany and elsewhere in Europe where they're illegal to outright censorship of opposition parties, as in Russia.

 

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