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Degoogle, and also avoid any company with an international arm incorporated in Russia, or outside of Russia, apparently:

Google is seeking a ruling [in US and English courts] to block [RT] from pursuing its assets in foreign jurisdictions such as South Africa, Turkey and Serbia.

According to the Turkish filings, Russian courts have determined that Google owes Tsargrad 32.8bn roubles (£273m)... [the penalty] doubles every 24 hours... Russian courts had “levied unprecedented fines and arbitrary legal penalties against Google in an attempt to limit access to information on our services and as a punishment for our compliance with international sanctions against Russian individuals and organisations”.

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Aaaand... Whatever company hadn't pulled their assets out of Russia yet are now scrambling to do it.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aaaand... we're upvoting comments of people that obviously have not read the article.

New court documents filed in the US shows that Russian authorities “seized” Google’s money from their bank account in Moscow in 2022 around the time Putin invaded Ukraine.

This happened at the time of the initial invasion and this article is just talking about the lawsuit over it.

So, unless your trying to imply that Google should have been able to see the future, your comment is inappropriate. I only point this out because you're so highly voted up and are clearly spreading misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Their implication is wrong but they didn't explicitly state any falsehoods

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, the seizure happened back in 2020 when companies were still in the process of removing themselves from Russia. And it happened in retaliation for google complying with international sanctions against Russia.

They're important details. And you would have seen them in the article if you'd read it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Locked article, but yeah, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Paywalls are easily bypassed by archiving the page:

https://archive.is/SqVCQ

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Putin doesn't care, he's old enough he's facing his own mortality and his "capstone achievement" is regaining as much ex Soviet territory as possible.

He thought he'd steamroll Ukraine and move on to the next, for someone like Putin he'd consider his entire life a failure if he doesn't get it.

And he's not trump, he's evil as fuck but he's not an idiot. He knows he won't live forever and this is the last push.

Doesn't matter if the whole country dissolves the day after he dies, he wants Russia to cover as much land as possible the day before.

It's an insanely dangerous geopolitical position even before factoring in Israel attacking Russia's allies, like I'm legit surprised no ones declared war today.

I know people are optimistic because Kamala's almost definitely going to win, but trump isn't the only shit show on the schedule.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For real.

Putin, please do nestle next.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago (2 children)

See, I'm torn. I don't want russia to have ANY money at all.

.........but I DO also hate nestle.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Let em fight it out!

Ruling class does it all the time. Keep citizens enraged on issues of race, gender, religion, sports, and so on so they are distracted from realising the one true war of ruling class vs everybody else.

/s in a sense that shit flung at the ruling class tends to roll downhill. If nestle loses a bunch of money, they will raise prices to keep the infinite growth machine running. If Russia steals a bunch of money, they have more capital for weapons.

Its kind of lose/lose for us :(

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Oh I don't think nestle would give Putin shit. I just want Putin to try, and by doing so burn that particular bridge. Nestle isn't gonna stop doing business in Russia any other way.