Wait, Google still conducts business in Russia?
Ah, so just trying to grab money, punish the west, and hurt queer people.
Also trying to continue brainwashing their viewers and portraying themselves as the strong man.
Except there’s no way they’ll actually get any money out of this and they know as much. It’s just the same old tired posturing to do whataboutism about extremist content
Ok now it makes more sense.
I don’t think anyone here is defending Google in all of their policies. We’re all just laughing at the impotent dictator who thinks he can make a quick $50 million and win the hearts of bigots at the same time.
How pavlovian!
I also host extremist LGBTQ content and you should too!
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I think you got Lemmy confused for Reddit again.
Reported your comment, homophobe.
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soon, Russia will fine the sky for hosting “extremist” rainbows
What a bunch of pansy dumb fucks. Poor Russia’s gonna cry because Google is paying attention to markets that actually matter.
You mean markets that fall for marketing. Google is an advertising company. They don’t care about the LGBT communities, they care about money. Never forget that. The LGBT support is just a byproduct of what they’ve decided is going to make them the most money.
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Which is to say, markets that actually matter.
All Markets matter!
/snicker…
You can talk about other aspects of Google and their stance as related to advertising, but they have always been LGBT friendly from day 1. Both the employees and company as a whole. They released this 13 years ago: https://youtu.be/pYLs4NCgvNU?si=5NizEf8XAf8CPyBs
So Russia doesn’t use Telegram?
I see putin is still salty about the “Putin’s gay” edit.
Google’s response:
I’ve worked at a big tech company. I can all but guarantee there are some firey memes posted amongst colleagues about this situation. Unfortunately, they’re unlikely to ever become public.
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Lolol.
