{"id":2877,"date":"2021-09-17T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/17\/apple-and-google-accused-of-political-censorship-over-alexei-navalny-app\/"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:41:33","slug":"apple-and-google-accused-of-political-censorship-over-alexei-navalny-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/17\/apple-and-google-accused-of-political-censorship-over-alexei-navalny-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Google accused of \u2018political censorship\u2019 over Alexei Navalny app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Navalny\u2019s supporters say companies deleted tactical voting app from stores after pressure from Kremlin<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have accused Google and Apple of capitulating to Kremlin pressure after the two tech companies deleted his tactical voting app from their online stores.<\/p>\n<p>Both companies had come under significant pressure from Russian regulators in the days before the courntry\u2019s parliamentary elections to block access to Navalny\u2019s Smart Voting initiative, which tries to channel opposition votes toward the strongest opponents of the ruling party, United Russia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/17\/apple-and-google-accused-of-political-censorship-over-alexei-navalny-app\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/179a0efa3df9f09053c0d4bf5b1fee6568c4fd24\/22_0_3444_2067\/master\/3444.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c050a72fa2b55463e4491306de280e06\" title=\"Apple and Google accused of \u2018political censorship\u2019 over Alexei Navalny app\" \/>Navalny\u2019s supporters say companies deleted tactical voting app from stores after pressure from Kremlin<br \/>\nSupporters of the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have accused Google and Apple of capitulating to Kremlin pressure after the two tech companies deleted his tactical voting app from their online stores.<br \/>\nBoth companies had come under significant pressure from Russian regulators in the days before the courntry\u2019s parliamentary elections to block access to Navalny\u2019s Smart Voting initiative, which tries to channel opposition votes toward the strongest opponents of the ruling party, United Russia. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navalny\u2019s supporters say companies deleted tactical voting app from stores after pressure from Kremlin Supporters of the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have accused Google and Apple of capitulating to Kremlin pressure after the two tech companies deleted his tactical voting app from their online stores. Both companies had come under significant pressure from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/17\/apple-and-google-accused-of-political-censorship-over-alexei-navalny-app\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple and Google accused of \u2018political censorship\u2019 over Alexei Navalny app<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}