Putin seizes $100m from Google to fund Russia’s war machine
www.telegraph.co.uk
Bailiffs funnel tech giant’s cash to pay for war propaganda

Degoogle, and also avoid any company with an international arm incorporated in Russia, or outside of Russia, apparently:

Google is seeking a ruling [in US and English courts] to block [RT] from pursuing its assets in foreign jurisdictions such as South Africa, Turkey and Serbia.

According to the Turkish filings, Russian courts have determined that Google owes Tsargrad 32.8bn roubles (£273m)… [the penalty] doubles every 24 hours… Russian courts had “levied unprecedented fines and arbitrary legal penalties against Google in an attempt to limit access to information on our services and as a punishment for our compliance with international sanctions against Russian individuals and organisations”.

  • Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
    72·
    3 months ago

    Aaaand… we’re upvoting comments of people that obviously have not read the article.

    New court documents filed in the US shows that Russian authorities “seized” Google’s money from their bank account in Moscow in 2022 around the time Putin invaded Ukraine.

    This happened at the time of the initial invasion and this article is just talking about the lawsuit over it.

    So, unless your trying to imply that Google should have been able to see the future, your comment is inappropriate. I only point this out because you’re so highly voted up and are clearly spreading misinformation.