Russia Taps the Google PEZ Dispenser for Petty Cash
February 2, 2022
Tass, the Russian News Agency, published “Google Fined over $50,000 for Links to Radicals, Drug Trafficking.” The write up disseminates this information:
magistrate court in Moscow fined the Google search engine 4 mln rubles ($51,408) for providing links to the websites with content banned in Russia including the promotion of drugs, radical Islam, nationalism, as well as the kasparov.ru website, banned in the country.
The emission continued:
Google has not stopped issuing links to websites with child pornography, information about drug trafficking, nationalist organizations in Russia and Ukraine, and the activities of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir group outlawed in Russia, the document says.
My hunch is that the practice suggests that Moscow does sees plenty of PEZ in the mechanism with the Googley decoration.
Stephen E Arnold, February 2, 2022
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