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Google pulls Russian opposition leader's YouTube advert ahead of vote
Reuters ^

Posted on 09/08/2018 5:17:40 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

Google removed a YouTube advert by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after authorities complained that the videos would violate an election silence law before Sunday's vote for regional governors, an aide to Navalny said on Saturday.

The series of YouTube videos featured Navalny inviting Russians to join demonstrations on Sunday, when polls suggest President Vladimir Putin's former chief-of-staff Sergei Sobyanin will be comfortably re-elected as the capital's mayor.

Navalny's aide, Leonid Volkov, said in a social media post that Google deleted the videos after the Central Election Commission had sent a letter of complaint to Google about the advertisement -- a demand Volkov called illegal.

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Trump's fault.
1 posted on 09/08/2018 5:17:40 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Election interference?


2 posted on 09/08/2018 5:23:53 PM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: ameribbean expat

Google collusion with Putin.


3 posted on 09/08/2018 5:30:37 PM PDT by motor_racer (If you don't read the news, you are uninformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Putin: “Spasibo, Google!”


4 posted on 09/08/2018 5:36:43 PM PDT by niteowl77
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To: ameribbean expat

Marxist collusion


5 posted on 09/08/2018 5:39:23 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: ameribbean expat

Russia should Indict all the Google Execs, then President Trump can TRADE them for Mueller’s Indicted russians.

WIN WIN!!!


6 posted on 09/08/2018 5:52:50 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ameribbean expat; semimojo; palmer
And this is one method whereby governments can use "private" corporations ability to censor as their means of censorship.

If we had a law that refused to allow this, they couldn't do it without breaking that law.

7 posted on 09/08/2018 8:15:33 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: proust

Election interference?
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Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are currently being used to censor conservative ideas, spin information, create fake news, all to influence the upcoming election.

The FBI, IRS, and CIA have been used in the past, and are being used currently by the Socialist/Progressives to destroy all semblance of equal justice and accountability.

It is a coop just like the one perpetrated on the Nixon Administration. Just as then, after a massive election defeat the Dem/Socialist had to destroy the standard bearer. And just like then, the MSM leads the charge.


8 posted on 09/08/2018 8:41:26 PM PDT by Yulee
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