San Francisco, Europe Brief News – Ukrainians who are currently working in Silicon Valley for Western Tech firms have decided to help their besieged homeland in any way possible. They are getting together to knock down Disinformation websites and motivate Russians to go against their government.
They are trying to persuade giant firms such as Google, Cloudflare and Amazon to increase their efforts to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They are accomplishing their tasks via Email campaigns and online petitions.
Olexiy Oryeshko, Ukrainian American Software engineer at Google said “Companies should try to isolate Russia as much as possible, as soon as possible”.
They are pleading with cybersecurity companies to leave Russian clients. They are especially targeting the publishers by claiming that they are propagating fake information through their websites.
If Cybersecurity starts to track down such publishers, the publishers will find themselves in a pretty bad place and would be more exposed to online attacks.
Igor Seletskiy, Chief executive of Palo Alto-based Software maker CloudLinux has urged Cloudflare to isolate various Russian news websites.
He wrote an email to Cloudflare “Given that even Switzerland took sides, I think it would be an important statement if Cloudflare would do the same”.
In response to that email, Cloudfair claimed that they have to drop some clients citing the sanctions and some accounts are under review.
Goloshuk, CEO of Brightest Minds said “ More than a dozen, among them security and web hosting providers, said they would do what they can. Some have dropped Russian customers or were considering doing so”.
Suspension of Services Urged
At Google, workers including hundreds of Ukrainian have signed an internal letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding the search giant to deliver more aid to Ukraine and modify its services such as maps and advertising tools.
Recently Google prohibited Russian state media from using advertising and distribution tools. This step was taken to strengthen Ukraine’s position to fight against Russia.
Silicon Valley-based humanitarian aid group Nova Ukraine has pleaded with Amazon to donate worker time along with space for bandages and other crucial supplies on its cargo planes. The planes will be heading to neighbouring countries such as Poland.
Igor Markov, A director of Nova Ukraine and tech research scientist said “ They have the scale no one else has”.
