This (as with defense) is kind of outside Google or Yandex's purview.

phatfish 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yandex is a part of Russia's military. Just the same as Google, MS, Amazon etc. provide services for the US military. Google et al. are probably in the critical path of defence for most European countries as well, insane though that is.

	▲	ivan_gammel 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not defending Yandex here, but I think their military involvement might be as accidental as of an American farmer whose beef landed in the cantina of aircraft carrier. Government and military procurement in Russia is its own universe, with strong players having specific IT expertise and capable of building DCs and tech. Assuming that everywhere in the world it’s the same as in America is wrong. Consumer tech companies aren’t operating this way usually, it is the scale of American Big Tech that allows them to compete with traditional contractors.

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jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Said every company serving fascists ever.

No, you can choose to collaborate or you can shut it down.

Collaborators don't get to point back in time and say 'oh we had no choice', even if the choice was a painful one. Sorry it does not work that way.