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Both google and apple here, is that the kind of pressure that google and apple have previously resisted? and now they're caving? or was this some sort of new upping of the game where they really had no choice and their employees shouldn't have expected that they might have taken a more courageous stand? >> yeah, i've heard two different versions of this in talking to both people inside and people who have been at the company. and i should note that google has not said anything officially. they have given no comment whatsoever about this. and at apple the same as far as i know. others have repo...

Week's elections. it disappeared from the two technology platforms just as voting got under way. putin's government pressured apple and google to take this navalny app out of the app stores, and they caved. and that was not the end of it in terms of the caving. over the weekend as russians voted, google also blocked videos. google owns youtube. google blocked youtube videos that navalny's allies posted on youtube to, again, help coordinate this smart voting strategy. they blocked those videos at the request, at the demand of putin's government. well, now bloomberg news reports that employees o...

Government contract with the defense department. and they protested their plans to re-enter china and google didn't renew its pentagon contract and google hasn't gone into china. so google employees have been powerful forces in the past few years. that being said, a lot of their organizing within the company has experienced a significant clamp-down. so far they're not sending petitions around, they're not marching in protests like they have in the past. it's been grossly meager. it will be interesting to see how long this goes on, particularly after the elections, if people respond either way....

Of the company. images circulating inside google which were viewed by bloomberg news, spoofed its corporate crede about prioritizing users. one picture depicts a man reading a magazine below the slogan, putin the user first. get it? putting the user first, putin, the user first. since its formation, google has used the motto to make information universally accessible and useful. one meme image being circulated, again, inside google among its own employees displayed a map of the world where the russian voting map was allowed. every country was marked universally accessible except for russia whe...

Navalny, russia tried to assassinate him last year, put his workers in jail as well. but they created an app that voters could use for voting strategically, voting basically in a coordinated way to consolidate support for an anti-putin candidate in each district, a candidate that actually could win. they built this smart voting app as a key part of that voting effort to try to get putin's political party out of power and therefore oust putin from the kremlin. they created the app, helping people coordinate their votes in a strategic way. but this was the headline in "the new york times" on fri...