I'm sure this can, and will be taken to the international courts, in which I expect russia's b.s. laws to be declared a load of b.s. .
Unless of course Google just laughs at them and refuses to have anything to do with them until they rescind their b.s. fines. In that case, if russia tries to go to international courts to take the money from google, I expect the court will laugh at russia.

Actually it's much harder to justify the russian invasion of Ukraine in comparison to the US invasion of Iraq.
I am NOT saying one of them was right, but there's a difference between stepping into the water, and doing a cannon ball while hanging onto an anchor.

Perhaps, but most Americans don't know a lot about other allied countries, and the subject of the article, and thus all posts that aren't screwing up and going off topic, will be about Russia, and/or Google since they are the topic.

Also people on the right that aren't part of 45s cult of personality.
You see, it's not that he spoke, it's what he did that violated laws that he's getting in trouble for.
Sure, some of that was just words, and free speech has never allowed people to get away with certain things, like whipping up a mob, or talking that mob into an insurrection.
"Who shall rid me of this meddlesome priest", when outside of a play or other literature, that get's someone to try and actually kill somebody, is considered ordering telling them to kill the "priest". You know mobsters like to talk indirectly like that to try and avoid getting arrested, and yet they still get arrested and successfully prosecuted for it.
Of course, our justice system has lots of problems, and money can give a lot of leverage to change the odds. We'll see what happens with this, but trump is and has been a criminal for many decades, he's just not a convicted one.
If you don't believe me, check the legal records in NY State on him and his companies. He's been able to protect himself with arbitration, influence, money, and hiding behind corporate laws so fines are paid instead of the one responsible (aka trump in these cases) going to jail.
Remember, someone who commits a crime, is still a criminal, even if they haven't been convicted.

The Lenovo page only shows the header and footer, so I allowed lenovo.com to run scripts - eventho that shouldn't be necessary to view an information page on a patch for their security flaw.

Still blank.

So I allowed cross-site scripting from adobedtm.com. Still blank.

So I allowed cross-site scripting from go-mpulse.net. Still blank. The fuck?

So I allowed cross-site scripting from confirmit.net. CAPCHA just to view a page info on their security bug? Still blank.

There's 1 more cross-site script, a metric page. Okay, quantummetric.com allowed. Still blank.

New cross-site script from maps.googleapis.com. Allowed. Still blank.

Do I need to whitelist the site for cookies or disable uBlock Origin, in order to see their page about their patch for their security flaw? What. The. Fuck?

An unlivable biosphere will definitely cause society to collapse, whereas a sustainable way of living have in the past and can definitely in the future lead to having a continuing society. We could choose to replace our omnicidal ponzi-scheme economy with a sustainable system - just like we got rid of economies based on human slavery.

I agree tho that most voters are incapable of thinking long term and/or are sociopaths incapable of empathy.

So we can make the biosphere unlivable by continuing to use fossil fuels, turning the Anthropocene extinction into a mass extinction event and choosing to kill billions of people and most genera, or

to vote to tackle by far the biggest and root cause by reducing our unsustainable fertility down to 0.01 per person for several decades.

I'm guessing the vast majority of people will keep voting to make the biosphere uninhabitable.

Bill Hicks: https://youtu.be/tHEOGrkhDp0

If anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. [...] there's no rationalization for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, okay. Kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously.

No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming". There's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. [...]

I know all the marketing people are going, "He's doing a joke." - there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for that righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Goddammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags. Quit putting a goddamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

Sounds like the vagueness of quackery to me.
There were a lot of phrases in there that set off warning flags in my mind.
Let's see how the peer review goes.

Check out the video by CEO Matt Stool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (aka Brennan Lee Mulligan from CollegeHumor)

For as far as we know, it had nothing to do with the lovable childs toy/storybook character.
It could have been a reference to Russia (Long known as the Bear), and indicating that it should stop invading Ukraine (stepping down is a term used to indicating backing from a conflict.).

Of course, we only have third or fourth hand knowledge of what actually happened and it's relevant context, so it's just speculation on our part either way.
(And I never put it past censors to go beyond their borders and attack things they never should have.)

Solar is pretty much useless beyond Mars. Out there it's like night time on Earth, but with even less light available.

So they're going to spend a metric butt-ton of cash for a system that's little more than techno-voodoo because b.s. reasons.

I love tech, and facial recognition is rather cool, but don't fool yourself, despite what marketing tries to tell you, it utterly sucks outside the lab. Actually it's not that great in the labs yet either, but nobody is buying it for a laboratory.

False positives, false negatives, and a system that's either too tight on parameters that it increases one or so light it increases the other.
It's a crappy system that's worse than useless as it causes laziness in security people, as well as reliance on it despite it being wrong more often than not.
(Both false positives and false negatives are the system being wrong. And we haven't even brought up the massive biases due to faulty AI creating racial based issues.)

That's actually capitalism at work there,
Also, for a lot of us, a months salary might just only cover a weekend in our normal residence, especially in New York City, so what's your point?

The freedom of speech only prevents the government from censoring most speech.
Some speech has always been excluded from being restricted, such as slander, and things that are likely to cause harm. (Shouting "FIRE" in a theater is the common example.)

The company does have some safe harbor with regards to what users post, but first of all, there's no legal issue with being proactive and heading off troublemakers before somebody gets you into court over what some user said. Whether the company is protected or not, the court case can be rather expensive to win either way.

All these things mean that non government organizations/companies can mute, block, ban, delete, or kick off both posts and their users as appropriate, and for pretty much whatever reason they want, especially if the post or user violates the posted rules.