Putin Says Services Like Microsoft, Zoom Should Be 'Throttled' in Russia (yahoo.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/26/1733256/putin-says-services-like-microsoft-zoom-should-be-throttled-in-russia
- Source link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-services-microsoft-zoom-153119936.html
> Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that foreign service providers like Microsoft and Zoom that act against Russian interests [1]should be "throttled." Putin said it was important for Russia to develop domestic software solutions.
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-services-microsoft-zoom-153119936.html
Microsoft What? (Score:2)
What is he talking about?
M$ provide all sorts of services. Is he going to ban Office 365 ?
Re: Microsoft What? (Score:1)
I read that in an effort to drive Ukraine war enlistment, young Russian men are now being given a choice- LibreOffice or a trip to the front line. Most are choosing to fight than to be treated so inhumanely
Re: Microsoft What? (Score:2)
Joke would be funnier and more realistic if you said MS Office or Windows.
Re: Microsoft What? (Score:1)
Does anyone want to tell him?
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No, he's just going to make it suck even more.
Actually (Score:4, Insightful)
They shouldn't be operating there at all
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its the internet nothing is stopping them from using the English version. unless the country blocks it.
MS (Score:2)
Why is MS operating at all in russia?
Re: MS (Score:2)
Because 99.99% of Russians don't have anything to do with Putin and still need an OS to run shit. No one wants Russia to become a disconnected rogue state like North Korea.
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You are very uninformed. Putin propagandizes his population far more effectively, and for far longer, than Trump.
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Only because he's had more time to do it.
Re: MS (Score:2)
If you think Russians are as disconnected from information as North Koreans, it's definitely you who need to be better informed.
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> Because 99.99% of Russians don't have anything to do with Putin
Terrible leaders can win with a majority of support, as we've seen right here in America with our most recent election. Sure, you can't blame all Russians for Putin, but never underestimate the ability of citizens to get behind a nationalist madman.
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To be exact, terrible leaders can with with a minority of support, as we've seen right here in America with our anachronistic Electoral College nonsense combined with state party gerrymandering where the party is picking the voters.
But hey, at least corporations can spend unlimited money on politics, so that's gonna fix it, right?
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Their payments still clear.
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> Why is MS operating at all in russia?
They are not. They stopped allowing new purchases from Russians back in 2023 and closed their offices there. Existing customers keep their current licenses but from what I understand they can't renew them. So all but 3 year commit 365 licenses should have run out by now. I assume this is people attending calls hosted by people outside Russia since they called out Teams and Zoom specifically and not full office suites.
"develop domestic software solutions" (Score:5, Funny)
I look forward to using Vladix in the near future, LOL.
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Potato.
soon Trump will say the same thing (Score:2)
just so we know the source when Trump says it
Also, didn't know Microsoft is a service. Maybe if Putin knew, he'd just say that Microsoft needs to be pushed out of a window, or sent to a Salvadoran prison.
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Trump went off script [1]https://www.bbc.com/news/live/... [bbc.com]
Expect a 3am apology written in all caps soon.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgpj038elyt
Putin should be throttled in Russia. (Score:2)
Or anywhere really.
Unlike here (Score:2)
Unlike here where the managers that keep making everyone attend pointless Zoom meetings should be throttled.
This is similar to what the US is doing (Score:2)
Trump raises tariffs to "encourage" manufacturing to move to the US, I can't claim Putin invaded Ukraine to achieve the same end (moving the profits back "home") but he's thinking the same way. Maybe Russia will cooperate with China on this, China was practically forced to develop alternatives during Trump's previous presidency and they are a lot further along.
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it's been a while that china and russia and several other countries in the world cooperate, both to prosper as equals and to become resilient to the "global rule based order" where the bully can change the rules whenever it pleases. it's the west which is actually getting isolated, and that's been going on for a while now too, long before trump, he's just accelerating the process with his antics.
btw, his tariffs can't really be useful to encourage manufacturing to move to the us, not even if he didn't chang
I'm afraid ... (Score:2)
... Putin is taking on too powerful of an enemy. I suspect that Microsoft services will [1]throttle him first [slashdot.org].
Those drones he's using against Ukraine might just turn around.
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/25/2247212/openais-chatgpt-o3-caught-sabotaging-shutdowns-in-security-researchers-test
I actually agree with something Putin said! (Score:2)
Let me preface this by saying I despise Putin, his aggression against Ukraine, and everything Putin stands for.
However, it is a fact that any non-US governments or non-US organizations relying on software produced by US-based companies )and especially services provided by US-based companies) are vulnerable.
Here is [1]exhibit A [nltimes.nl] on how dangerous it is to rely on US-based companies nowadays. There's a good [2]video [youtube.com] on this topic (unfortunately in Dutch, but it has subtitles and the auto-translation is quite good
[1] https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/20/microsofts-icc-email-block-triggers-dutch-concerns-dependence-us-tech
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoTMwX_clDs
Re: I actually agree with something Putin said! (Score:2)
The importance of this comment simply cannot be overstated
must think in russian to use it as well (Score:2)
must think in russian to use it as well
Throttled (Score:4, Informative)
I hage resd his wordw in the original language, being fluent. What he said was literally throttled - as in murdered by asphyxiation, not throttled in the sense of slowed down as they already do with youtube.
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Yes, the word he used is usually translated as "choking someone" or "strangling someone".
It's call Linux (Score:2)
Linux + other OSS gets you there
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Linux source is available, but there was a big purge of contributors with Russian affiliation. So in theory that's more throttled in the sense that they can't upstream convenience patches. For example, if Russia has to make it's own chips for something, network cards, or interfaces, getting the device patches would be more difficult. Is that a problem? Only one of convenience but at the speed of tech today, maybe a bigger one than it would have been years back.
So now they're taking their cues from Trump? (Score:2)
Demonize random nations and their evil goods in order to encourage profits by your own big businesses? This never actually works, although that never stops people from trying. But, wouldn't you prefer that your own citizens suffer higher prices for the benefit of your own country's moguls?
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it was always how to worked until the 80s with trade deals that tanked are economy and killed off so many jobs. trumps just trying to force us back on that path.
Why isn't Russia 'throttled' by the world ? (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, why do we still interconnect with those criminals ? All their packets should go down the bit bucket.
Sure, but he's still a dictator (Score:2)
Although this could help with peace. Keep people away from Teams and that humanitarian deed may get you to keep the Krim.
Brick every that US companies control (Score:2)
At the beginning of the war I hoped that all US software would stop working in Russia. Not just clouds but all Windows devices, Apple, Android could have been bricked at a snap. The war would have ended very fast. (Granted, Russia can make things work again, but it would take time and lots of engineering effort.)
I was so naive.
Considering Putin's recent attack on Ukraine (Score:2)
I think Putin should be throttled back with a tactical nuke if necessary
We can help them with that (Score:2)
Just throttle them to zero.
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> Just throttle them to zero.
Well... something/one should be throttled to zero in Russia.