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YouTube boasts removal of 8,000 channels, 60,000 Ukraine war videos
YouTube has announced the extent of its purges.
GitHub is banning accounts of Russians who used to work at sanctioned companies
Even if they no longer work there.
Russia arrests another journalist, Mikhail Afanasyev, for content that criticizes Ukraine invasion
New censorship laws in Russia are being used increasingly.
Russia censors two more independent news outlets
Escalating censorship.
YouTube bans Russia’s State Duma
YouTube says it violated its terms of service.
Google instructed translators not to call Ukraine invasion a “war”
A contradiction to their public statements.
Russia continues to order Google to hide VPN websites
To block citizens from bypassing censorship.
Russian Instagram model targeted by new censorship law after posts supporting Ukraine
The maximum punishment is 15 years in prison, but Belonika isn’t in the country.
Former Google CEO tells Big Tech to get involved with national defense
Eric Schmidt suggests the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a reminder why they should.
Firefox removes Yandex search, will auto-switch affected users to Google
Support for Russia’s Mail.ru is also pulled.