• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Petrov was de facto banned from Russia for refusing to fold into the government’s requests to influence vkontakte? Dude’s definitely too rich and has bad takes sometimes, but calling him an oligarch makes no sense

    • 卩卄卂丂乇@lemmy.8th.world
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      4 days ago

      Ok. Not rich and impactfull enough to be an oligarch. But a person wining online when their business is impacted and saying it is an attack on millions of people which isn’t.

    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      Not using the power doesn’t remove it from his grasp. The really rich owner class are oligarchs, even if some of them act benevolently or at least not like the trash they could be.