Since you say it’s “not that simple”, do you truly believe it’s out of the reach of the Russian govt. to punish this company or the members of it for stepping out of line? They’re a large company in tech but how about their resources for personnel security, or what if they’ve been ordered to do so legally?
Let’s go beyond that. Let’s say that Yandex has been spreading propaganda on purpose for multiple years. That’s every other search engine too. Especially Google! If Russia or China wins a conflict, or begins one economically, do the employees of Google deserve to be punished for their work during this time? When you use logic and apply the same logic to the situation in reverse, it’s quite apparent that you have a bias, and that bias isn’t serving you well.
Can you address my points instead of trying to assign some sort of ideological slant to them? Not only is it much stronger for your argument but it’s more honest discourse.
Nothing you have said in your post is unique to the geography, at all. If that makes you feel less special, good; there is nothing special about being from one geographical location or another, and nothing special about a murder in Africa vs. a murder in South America.
Murder is murder, you don’t have a worse kind. If there is something to discuss, it’s not from an angle of ideological context-macht.
You just try to downplay struggle of oppressed people in non-West countries for some reason by saying "welp it happens everywhere nothing special". It's so puzzling why Americans do it all the time.
I'm puzzled why we should always talk about America, your government, your policies, social media and search engines? People in the third world want oppression off their backs and if you think you don't have democracy, well too bad, we still want it.
Yandex could simply not display any news at their frontpage instead of displaying propaganda. I doubt that there would be any consequences for it. After all, it is a search engine and not a news agency.
Let’s go beyond that. Let’s say that Yandex has been spreading propaganda on purpose for multiple years. That’s every other search engine too. Especially Google! If Russia or China wins a conflict, or begins one economically, do the employees of Google deserve to be punished for their work during this time? When you use logic and apply the same logic to the situation in reverse, it’s quite apparent that you have a bias, and that bias isn’t serving you well.