Tripadvisor, Google Maps Suspend Reviews of Some Russian Listings (wsj.com) 9
Alphabet's Google Maps and the travel search platform Tripadvisor temporarily blocked users from posting new reviews to some listings in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, the companies said. From a report: The suspensions were made in response to an influx of political statements posted as reviews to businesses and tourist destinations in the region, boosted by a campaign that saw pro-Ukraine activists using the travel platforms to try to communicate with Russians partially cut off from other media platforms. A social-media campaign promoted by the global hacker collective Anonymous encouraged followers to visit Google Maps, find a restaurant or other business in Russia and write a review explaining "what is happening in Ukraine." The group on Monday suggested users leverage the review sites to tell Russian readers to "Stand up to your dictator," among other directions. Other social-media accounts encouraged the posting of similar messages on Russian Tripadvisor pages.
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I predict most Russian businesses learn to no longer trust the west. We'll likely see a lot of Russian based tech companies to fill in the gaps and hopefully break the global strongholds of Western big tech companies. The fact that Google and Apple could clog up metros by turning off payment apps, shows they have immensely too much power.
Although war is always horrific, I hope this will wake people up out of their globalist dreams, and tech people to turn around technology companies which so much power they
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That is pretty much already the case I think?
For example Russians use Yandex rather than Google.
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I have a yandex email address. After work, I need to see if it still works :)
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Wrong Headline (Score:2)
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Sad they started doing it when they were actually something good...