Summary: "Google considers that the territory that DPR considers theirs is indeed theirs," a source has told us. "The guy from Mariupol says that because his city is in Donetsk oblast' Google Clown blocked him considering him as a resident of DPR." Those sanctions are, as usual, punishing many of the victims; they punish the wrong people and help the occupier/invader/oppressor. "In this case they definitely punished the wrong person," the source has added. "Being a Ukrainian in Ukraine and a refugee, but also being punished by Google in the name of Ukraine is several levels of ironic." And another person has noted that "this is why i don't believe in the "clown" [...] if you're in the wrong country at the wrong time, there goes your data..."
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We have some reasons to suspect that one of several parties (possibly not in the UK but having connections here), having suffered major and very expensive setbacks, may look to harm the messenger one way or another
Could the FSF not find any law firm that, in addition to talking about or for Free software, does not use .NET, OOXML, and almost everything Microsoft?
