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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by yanderekko on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:44PM (#28567642)
No - this is elementary game theory. By precommitting to "if I withdraw the app I will go to jail", then the Russian threat would become ineffective and they wouldn't make it to begin with.

Granted, the real world is more complicated but this is equivalent of using the strategy of disabling your steering wheel before playing a game of chicken.

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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by avmich on Saturday September 18, 2021 @10:51AM (#28576709)
It's not a game of chicken. Russia is well prepared to collide - did that many times. Threats won't work - actually jailing important Russians abroad for supporting Russian organizations under sanctions will.

Direct action is the primary working approach here.

For those reasons Google and Apple should be considered aiding and abetting Russian government now. Not quite illegal as of now - but how well it looks?

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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by throwaway210222 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @10:55AM (#28576733)
> Google and Apple [are] aiding and abetting Russian government now. Not quite illegal … - but how well it looks?

Meh, no quite as bad as the US quietly making Russia its second largest supplier of oil, no?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/russia-ca...

If you want to starve Crazy Ivan of his forex…

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