Degoogle, and also avoid any company with an international arm incorporated in Russia, or outside of Russia, apparently:

Google is seeking a ruling [in US and English courts] to block [RT] from pursuing its assets in foreign jurisdictions such as South Africa, Turkey and Serbia.

According to the Turkish filings, Russian courts have determined that Google owes Tsargrad 32.8bn roubles (£273m)… [the penalty] doubles every 24 hours… Russian courts had “levied unprecedented fines and arbitrary legal penalties against Google in an attempt to limit access to information on our services and as a punishment for our compliance with international sanctions against Russian individuals and organisations”.

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    I mean… I am also all for degoogling. But considering they are dealing with illegal attacks by russia because they stood up to war criminals… maybe this is not the best time to campaign against them?

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      they stood up to war criminals

      That’s a funny way of spelling “didn’t go out of their way to accommodate a second tier world power and its population that is barely half of the US’s and doesn’t spend a fraction of what other nations do on their enterprise services.”