Tens of thousands of people on Saturday staged what observers called the country's biggest political protest in years, defying a crackdown to demand free elections for the legislature of the capital, Moscow. Multiple YouTube channels broadcast the event live. Some videos attracted more than 50,000 people according to organisers. In contrast to previous protests, the authorities had approved this rally.
It said Russia would consider a failure by Google to respond to the request as "interference in its sovereign affairs" and "hostile influence (over) and obstruction of democratic elections in Russia".
If the company does not take measures to prevent events from being promoted on its platforms, Russia reserves the right to respond accordingly, Roscomnadzor said in its statement, without giving details.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @06:09PM (2 children)
The most illegal things on the Internet:
- 8chan
- Julian Assange/ Wikileaks bank accounts
- Venezualan government messages
- Tulsi Gabbard
- Project Dragonfly
Western tech companies censor these things and more, in peacetime, without legal threat, often with political motives or backing.
So why shouldn't the Russian government expect the likes of Google or Cloudfare to ban sites on demand? If the standards modern tech companies set for themselves are so low, if you're the Russian, Chinese, US, Indian, Iranian government, why not expect them to sell out on demand?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday August 13 2019, @06:29PM
Yeah, and that's stupid, too. Maybe it isn't a "legal threat" when some government dude asks you to pull something, but companies know to ask "how high".
Because we don't come over *there* and dictate things we expect them to do?
And that's not even getting into the idiocy of the idea to begin with, of trying to cover up public events in the 21st century, especially once they've gotten online.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday August 14 2019, @12:19AM
We should do a 4chan of something and try to make SN illegal somehow.
Yeah. I went there.
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