Posted on 07/01/2021 4:48:14 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Thursday a law obliging international tech giants to open offices in Russia.
From Jan. 1, 2022, internet companies, whose daily audience exceeds 500,000 Russian users, will have to create branches, open representative offices, or establish legal entities in Russia, which will "fully represent the interests of the head companies."
The preliminary list includes 20 platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, messengers WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, email service Gmail, search engines Google and Bing, hosting providers Amazon, Digital Ocean, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, online stores AliExpress, Ikea, Iherb, and the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Separately, the Russian president ratified the agreement of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on cooperation in cybersecurity.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.com.pk ...
Not sure they can be compelled to.
However i forsee some doing it to fulfil the letter of the law. A closet in a fifth floor brezschnevka somewhere.
This is hysterical. That way he can tax them.
... which will “fully represent the interests of the head companies.”
Gotta have somebody to arrest and hold hostage.
I think it’s great. They need to send American employees too so they can see the fruits of communism. Most of the people working in tech aphate America, I’m all for them being educated in reality.
“Not sure they can be compelled to.”
He has a kill switch. So, if they want to do business in Russia, they play by his rules. The problem I see, is now every country will pass a law requiring offices.
The purpose of this is to extract money from them. Also, it will give Russia editorial control. Somebody says something anti-Putin, bad stuff happens to the responsible techy.
There is no appeal to a Russian court.
Not sure they can be compelled to.
:::::Okay, these companies will WANT to comply.
That fear has been fully realized in the U.S. The Russian boogeyman does not exists and does not pose the threat your own government does. In case you haven’t been paying attention.
He wants somebody to arrest when they don’t do his bidding.
I don’t think there are any Russians
And there ain’t no Yanks
Just corporate criminals
Playing with tanks.
-The Call (The Walls Came Down)
5 floors
Kruzchefka
“The Russian boogeyman does not exists and does not pose the threat your own government does. “
I was having lunch with a high level official, a friend who made it into top state politics. We were talking about General Flynn. A lawyer, he said, (approximately) “I wouldn’t even have a pleasant conversation with an FBI agent. The risk is too great. They are 100% politics and they have the power to do any damned thing they want.”
Tech bigshots who defy Putin will find themselves in hospital beds, lingering with strange diseases that make their skin look like parchment and their cheeks sink in until they pass away.
Has happened to some enemies before.
One was found dead in a locked bathroom and had been poisoned.
Another “a former KGB agent who died three weeks after drinking a cup of tea” laced with deadly polonium-210 at a London hotel”
A woman journalist who wrote sympathetic stories about Islamist terrorists was kidnapped outside her home, shot several times — including a point-blank shot in the head — and dumped in the nearby woods. Nobody has been convicted of her murder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/
This is a good thing. It helps stop globalism.
An offer they can’t refuse. In Russia the market comes to you.
Russia has their own version of Facebook.
vk.com
I’m surprised it took this long. Social media are no different from newspapers or radio-stations of old. What country would let foreigners control all their newspapers or radio (or TV for that matter)?
Of course they can be compelled to. If they refuse they can be blocked and criminalized. And tech moguls would need to be a bit more careful as they travel around the world, sail on yachts, and fly. They might wind up arrested and extradited.
Guess who set the precedent dozens of times?
“They need to send American employees too so they can see the fruits of communism. “
They are already in San Francisco.
They top out at 5
Brezschnevkas can be up to 9 floors
So it works ether way :)
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