The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data

Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by veave on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:04AM (#37074519)

And lobbyists are not lobbyists, they are oligarchs.

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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by orangepurple on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:32AM (#37074759)

Lobbyists are not oligarchs. They are middlemen and facilitators of corruption and bribery that provide plausible deniability.

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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by sdfghswe on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:09AM (#37074573)

> And lobbyists are not lobbyists, they are oligarchs.

???

No, this is nonsense. The normal meaning of the word "lobbyist" is an _employee_ who uses political connections to push corporate interests. The normal meaning of the word "oligarch" is someone with large wealth. These two are not similar at all.

So the phrase you're looking for is probably "And billionaires are not billionaires, they're oligarchs".

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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by Dah00n on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:55AM (#37074999)

1. a ruler in an oligarchy.

2. a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence (particularly with reference to individuals who benefited from the privatization of state-run industries after the collapse of the Soviet Union).

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