Yandex only became a Russian company fairly recently, after over 20 years of being based outside of Russia.
It was sold, below market value, to a group of Russian investors last year for the specific purpose of controlling it and suppressing free speech.
Nobody, not a single human being in the entire history of humanity, has ever died because they couldn’t pirate a children’s film.
Many people have died, and continue die, because of Yandex’s cooperation with the FSB in shaping opinion, controlling the dissemination of information, and directly reporting users to the FSB for problematic searches.
Pirating children’s films and controlling the availability of news articles are different tiers of free speech.
How many people have died because of American attempts to 'shape opinion, control the dissemination of information, and directly reporting users to the law enforcement for problematic searches?'
Sure Russia is much worse than the US but Americans are still being persecuted for smoking weed which is just absurd.
It was sold, below market value, to a group of Russian investors last year for the specific purpose of controlling it and suppressing free speech.
Nobody, not a single human being in the entire history of humanity, has ever died because they couldn’t pirate a children’s film.
Many people have died, and continue die, because of Yandex’s cooperation with the FSB in shaping opinion, controlling the dissemination of information, and directly reporting users to the FSB for problematic searches.
Pirating children’s films and controlling the availability of news articles are different tiers of free speech.