A digital rights group is urging the company that made “Don’t be evil” its early slogan to quit helping the Kremlin take down videos made by its critics.
The one U.S. tech company that’s partnered more than any other over the last 10 years with Vladimir Putin’s censorship machine is the one that adopted the early slogan “Don’t be evil” – Google and its YouTube unit.
YouTube is a popular platform for self-expression, and the number of posts would give it a numerical leg up when counting instances of censorship. Even counting that mitigating factor, Google’s cooperation with the Russian government is noteworthy. Since 2011, Google has received 142,442 removal requests from Putin’s government. On at least one occasion, in 2019, it censored content related to Ukraine protests against Russia, restricting access within Russia to a YouTube video that “allegedly insults the Russian state flag and coat of arms,” the Google report says.
Some of the requests over the last decade were broad and opaque. In one fell swoop, the Russian government asked that Google remove 235 blog posts, Google Play apps, YouTube videos and images that “allegedly contain content in violation of the Federal Law on Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection.” Google said it “removed 115 items of content for violating product policies and we restricted 84 items from local view.
By comparison, Facebook hasn’t provided any data on its users to the Russian government over the last decade, according tocovering 2020 showed it only received 22 requests for Apple user accounts, providing data in under half. But it had also received 1,123 requests from Russia seeking basic customer data related to device identifiers, like serial numbers, and provided data in 85% of cases.that in the last two years, it has received no requests to supply data to Russian law enforcement.
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