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I've experienced more divisive content from western media itself than overt anti-west stuff from RT or yandex lmao.
Feel free to move to Russia if you don’t live there already and you’ll no longer have to worry about being exposed to western media!
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Yandex search is vastly censored. See recent leaks for the list of the keywords they replace in search queries.
By "replace" do you maybe mean "alias"? In any case, the problem is that anything else is also censored. DuckDuckGo stopped indexing RuNet altogether and Google is... Google.
It is not the gotcha you think it is.
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Incredibly damning of Microsoft if they were making deals after 2014 to help the Russian aggression against Ukraine. That they would still be participating in this deal is even worse.
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yandex and RT are the top of rus disinformation and anti-west/divisive content.
Oh no, a country we’re at war with produces content advancing their viewpoint and fomenting divisions! The horror! I know US media, like Voice of America, would never do something like that. /s — the pearl clutching about things the US does because Russians is bigotry; the world isn’t a better place due to hating a certain ethnicity
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Sure, but how often do you search for "old fart" and expect to see Putin? OTOH, their image search is way better than google's.
> for "old fart" and expect to see Putin? Living in Ukraine, I would love for the world to never see Putin again. OTOH, I have nothing but tremendous respect for the engineers of the original Yandex. It's hard to overestimate how much they did for the russian-speaking world. I mean, they have basically invented practical stemming for Russian, Ukrainian and other close languages.
Living in Ukraine does not make you less factually wrong. They stood on the shoulders of Sergei Starostin and Andrey Zaliznyak. The whole field of Russian Computational Linguistics owes to these two people and their faceless students. Not just Yandex Search.
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Russia exporting their military into other countries territory does not count as independence.
Imagine if the January 6th riots somehow actually did end up driving e.g. Biden out of office. Would states that were aligned with Biden (and opposed to Trump) not thusly have the right to refuse to acknowledge the new government and declare their independence? It seems like a heck of a good reason to me!
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By "replace" do you maybe mean "alias"? In any case, the problem is that anything else is also censored. DuckDuckGo stopped indexing RuNet altogether and Google is... Google.
Does the word “alias” somehow make the process kosher? It is not the gotcha you think it is.
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Oh no, a country we’re at war with produces content advancing their viewpoint and fomenting divisions! The horror! I know US media, like Voice of America, would never do something like that. /s — the pearl clutching about things the US does because Russians is bigotry; the world isn’t a better place due to hating a certain ethnicity
Whataboutism is not a great look on anyone.
Literally "don't dismiss my non-relevant hypocrisy".
Cheap rhetorical tricks aren't really a great look either.
Microsoft signed a deal in 2015 to set Yandex as the default search engine in several countries close to Russia. The article mentions "Kazakhstan, Turkey, and Ukraine". The list is not exhaustive, as I know about Moldova and Georgia. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-partners-russias-ya... The list includes Ukraine! I've tested Edge with Ukraine as a Region on my MacOS, and it no longer appears to set it to Ya…
For MSFT, this is a huge embarrassment, reminiscent of Google's infamous "project dragonfly".
And they deleted your inquiry on their forums for "violating the community guidelines"! Not exactly PR geniuses, are they?
[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/moldova