The Washington Post he published a story that has not been revealed.
"Russian agents went to the home of a top Google executive in Moscow to deliver an ultimatum last September: remove a application (which had provoked the wrath of the Russian president Vladimir Putin) μέσα σε 24 ώρες ή θα οδηγηθείτε στη φυλακή”.
Google quickly transferred its executive to a hotel where he checked in under a false name and with the agreement to be protected by the security of the hotel and not to receive guests.
But shortly afterwards, the same agents - who company officials say came from Russia's KGB, the successor to the KGB intelligence service - showed up at the company executive's room to tell him that time was running out.
Within hours, the app designed to help Russians record votes against Putin was removed and could no longer be downloaded from the Google and Apple Stores, whose chief spokesman in Moscow faced a similarly frightening incident.
The meetings, which have never been revealed, were part of a broader campaign that Putin stepped up last year to erode internal opposition - moves that now help him maintain power amid a global backlash over the invasion of Ukraine.
Within a year, Putin jailed his political rival Alexei Navalny after a poisoning attempt failed to kill him. He pushed independent media to the brink of extinction, orchestrated a takeover of Russia's Kremlin-controlled equivalent of Facebook, and issued commands "clearance" against human rights organizations.
Amid this domestic onslaught, Putin has also moved against foreign technology companies. Moscow developed new ones Appliances that let it downgrade or even block Russians' access to Facebook and Twitter, imposed $120 million in fines on companies accused of defying Kremlin censorship and ordered 13 of the world's biggest tech companies to in Russia to be there when there is talk of possible arrest or other punishment for their employers' actions — a measure US officials refer to as the "hostage law."
The article also states that “the repression strategy works. Polls, the reliability of which is always uncertain in Russia, show that the majority of Russians support the war. "In interviews with Western journalists that have gone viral on the Internet, Russians informed by state-controlled media have repeatedly repeated the Kremlin's lies about the elimination of Nazism in Ukraine, while seemingly ignoring the massacres of war."
The article also mentions how Apple has responded to the crisis in Ukraine, but with a joke:
"Likewise, Apple has kept employees in Russia and taken other steps to appease the Kremlin. The company last year began configuring iPhones sold in Russia to promote Kremlin-backed social media companies, allowing users to activate them with a single click. It's something Apple would rarely do elsewhere, and furthers Putin's goal of promoting Russian-controlled platforms. government, according to Russian analysts".
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The news that is circulating we do not know what interests they serve and whether it is propaganda of one side or the other.
If we want to keep something from this whole story it is: Beware of polls…
And then Batman appeared and said I'm paid by Russia, I'll break you all up, I was a spy and I was playing your actor, I ran away
All this is fine… but without wanting to take the side of only one side, why are not the corresponding wrong texts of the self-proclaimed "democratic westerners" about censorship and the silence of those who do not like it mentioned ???
Lies are bad but this is a tactic followed by both sides… let's not forget Trump's block ……