Well they've made their choice and silenced our protest and opposition, and later spewed pro-war anti-Ukrainian propaganda using country's largest media (Yandex News).

If you're profiteering from our suffering and choose Kremlin's needs over ours, don't be suprised then when we tell you to shove your AI models and your search.

they're selling Yandex News to VK (Mail.ru)

It's still working as usual and they announced the transition after 8 years of warmongering and blacklisting all opposition resources. And only when sanctions hit.

Now they scramble to present a whitewashed image to Western public. They will probably put themselves forward as great contributors to open source.

Who's we? I am not in this together. So change it to "I". I don't care about you lot... lmao

> Who's we?

From context, pretty obviously "we Ukrainians". Didn't do too well in elementary reading, did you?

> I am not in this together. So change it to "I". I don't care about you lot... lmao

Thank you for so effectively demonstrating what a despicable excuse for a human being you are. I'll do my best to remember this when next I come across anything from you.

Not really, it's very different for Yandex in particular. Along with several other companies like Vimpelcom, they started the "Safe Internet League", an organization which exploited the think of the children argument to build the censorship regime from scratch. They practically created the original censorship laws, or participated in the creation, when they were in the best position to resist the government (and had the incentive to do so). As an example, Telegram successfully resisted the censorship while having much less leverage, much later.

Of course Yandex likes to pose as the victim of censorship, but the truth is that they are the censors themselves. They've been steamrolled by a runaway process they helped to create.

Which doesn't excuse them at all. They are full-on supporting the war machine and bloodshed and bear responsibility.