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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by pavlov on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:15AM (#37074630)
They are giants in the local market, one where making it big practically requires support from the highest level of government.

So “Russian [x] giant” really means “Putin’s favored [x] company”.

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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by tasogare on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:49AM (#37074921)
So quite similar to the US where oligarchs (oups, billionaires) are invited at the White House and companies provide algorithmic censorship favoring a particular political camp (obvious with Twitter before its recent purchase, YouTube actions against public free discourse on covid, Google removing pages related to a certain laptop, etc.)
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