alt Hacker NewsYandex pays taxes into the Russian government which is controlling military actions in Ukraine. Is this or is this not true?
Yandex pays taxes based off revenue it takes in from companies like Kagi. Is this or is this not true?
People here who pay into Kagi provide the search engine with the funding to pay Yandex. Is this or is this not true?
You can say it’s “not direct” and it’s an “oversimplification,” but the money still ends up in the same place all the same. You can try to wash your hands of it all you want by playing mental gymnastics.
Willingly paying Kagi knowing this makes you at minimum partially complicit in Russia’s invasion and ethnic cleansing of Ukraine.
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If it was a direct transaction like you claimed, you wouldn't need to describe so many steps.
Google pays taxes to the US government, which has launched a war on Iran that has raised the price of oil across the world.
The increase in oil prices have increased the oil profits of the Russian oil sector, which flow directly into the Russian war effort.
Google supports the Russian war in Ukraine!
You can say it’s "not direct" and it’s an "oversimplification," but the money still ends up in the same place all the same.
Willingly using Google knowing this makes you at minimum partially complicit in Russia’s invasion and ethnic cleansing of Ukraine.