Google Restricts Creation of New Accounts in Russia (themoscowtimes.com) 6
Google has restricted the creation of new accounts for Russian users, state news agencies cited Russia's digital ministry as saying on Thursday. Reuters: Google has been under pressure in Russia for several years, particularly for not taking down content Moscow considers illegal and for blocking the YouTube channels of Russian media and public figures since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "The ministry confirms that Google has restricted the creation of new accounts," Interfax quoted the digital ministry as saying. "Telecom operators have also recorded a significant reduction in the number of SMS messages sent by the company to Russian users."
Moscovia delenda est (Score:1)
19 months after Russia began bombing its neighbor in earnest, Google is doing something... Must've been fearing "an escalation" — a nuclear attack — until now...
Won't help (Score:3)
The muscovite midget can tighten his grip all he wants, the truth will still get through. For example, Ukrainian soldiers who have annexed part of the Kursk oblast are showing the citizens of Sudzha, and elsewhere, videos of Bucha and other locations in Ukraine which Russia has bombed. They are showing the people what is truly going on.
These people, once they get their cell service restored since Russia has cut it off to prevent news of the annexation from getting out, will then tell their relatives what they saw and they will tell others. The reality of Russia's 600,000+ dead, wounded, captured, and missing will, and is, getting out.
Wow Ironic! (Score:1)
With Russian citizens not able to be voluntarily tracked by Google, they may end up being freer than citizens of the West!
Re: (Score:2)
Meanwhile they are imprisoned for years merely for peacefully protesting the war. There is no equivalence to the west here. If your post is satire, then it is far too subtle.