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VK CEO Fired, Says Company Under Kremlin Control
An anonymous reader writes "The embattled founder of VK, Russia's largest social networking site, said this week that the company is now 'under the complete control' of two oligarchs with close ties to President Vladimir Putin. In a VK post published Monday, Pavel Durov said he's been fired as CEO of the website, claiming that he was pushed out on a technicality, and that he only heard of it through media reports."
In Soviet Russia, status updates you!
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
The US should resume its former campaign of organising cope d'etat in communist countries. Russia is clearly out of control.
>> He appeared to announce his resignation from the company on April 1st, but later claimed that it was an April Fools' joke, and that he would remain onboard. In a statement issued Monday, however, VK said that Durov submitted a resignation letter on March 21st and never withdrew it within the mandatory one-month window. Because of that, Durov said, he will be "automatically relieved" of his position.
Politically, it's bad, but I do enjoy seeing someone's stupid April Fools stunt blow up in their face.
Of course, we all know that collectivism is merely a smokescreen for greed. If it was legit, then the rulers would be living exactly like the peasants they controlled, rather than the ultra-rich emporers they are.
Next time Putin is taking questions on Russian TV this guy should submit one about "blah, blah, blah" so Putin can respond with his own "blah, blah, blah...next question?". Seems to work for other people.
Sounds like quiet the pickle you found yourself in.
Here in america we certainly dont have anything this ridiculous. Our social networks take careful steps to ensure profits are privatized and personal information is harvested and transmitted to the government quietly and quickly without so much as raising the issue for reasonable discussion. Our media outlets would never consistently report on the legality or morality of such normal operations as theyre both patriotic and in the interest of the people of the united states. Our elected leaders would never pressure private companies to shut down websites and deny financial remuneration for wholesome and informative whistleblower agencies such as wikileaks. For the Russian government to even consider a takeover of a private corporation is bombastic. We've never once taken over an auto industry or a bank, for example. And as for conventional media in america, we have never delivered talking points and restricted journalists in an attempt to control the dissemenation of information.
Good people go to bed earlier.
They both are communist in practice; It's just that the practical definition of communism clashes with the lies of communist propaganda, and that socialists/communists like you are always arguing that other socialists/communists aren't true socialists/communists.
So, does anyone have any ideas where Edward Snowden might be working in Russia these days?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Isn't Facebook basically under defacto control of the NSA anyway.
There's also the matter of tards like you failing to make the distinction between communism, Marxism, Marxist-Leninism, Trotskyism, Stalinism, Juche, Maoism, socialism, social-democracy and democratic-socialism.
Calling it all Communism is really just saying that you don't actually understand what you're bantering about.
Ought to count himself lucky he's still breathing, certainly wouldn't have shown his victims the same sort of compassion.
Well, at least you have the old cold warriors modding up your little troll post there. But... you're still wrong. Everybody has a price. The process of agreement is capitalism, even in the most dictatorial, communist, fascist regime you can find. There is no other way to exchange goods and services. Even with a gun, which you have to pay someone to make for you, you still have to pay someone, or an army to pull the trigger. That is capitalism.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Then you admit that communism will never, ever truly be possible because there will never be the removal of a process of agreement in any society... including the dictatorial, communist and fascist ones. There is always a trade-off of something for something else.
That's why capitalism works Charlie Brown, it conforms to human nature and, more importantly, human liberty.
Then you admit that communism will never, ever truly be possible...
That's why capitalism works...
And you never heard me state otherwise in either case. I simply said that all systems are capitalist, merely an observation, not an opinion.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
That's just how things work in Russia. There's not really any Rule of Law there. So once a company gets lucrative, the government swoops in and takes it over. Any unfortunate owner who tries to stand in the way finds himself in jail, or worse.
What I don't understand is why anyone would invest a single dime of their own money in a business operating in a country where the instant an investment starts paying off, someone else will come reap all your rewards. It just makes no sense whatsoever to try to do business there.
This Pavel Durov guy sent a resignation letter on April 1 saying that he resigned. Then a follow-up letter on April 3 stating that this was an April Fools joke and he'd like to recall the resignation letter.
Now, the VK social is undergoing hostile takeover and there's lots of going on that we don't know about.
What most don't seem to understand is:
You don't make such kind of jokes on April 1st without expecting consequences.
Imagine if
* Your boss joked "you're fired, pack your shit" and gave you a pink slip on April 1st
* A senior developer joked "I'm tired of all this bullshit and all you dumbass bozos building pointless crap" and gave his resignation on April 1st
* The CEO joked "I'm tired of all this bullshit and all the f-ing politics I have to deal with" and gave his resignation on April 1st
and made a follow-up two days later saying that was a joke and the statement should be recalled.
This still is a sad day in the history of Russian Internet. It seems that blocking of stuff is getting more and more aggressive (Navalny's blog was banned simply because he's under house arrest and is not supposed to use the internet). Some ISPs even roll out DPI which is sadly a better alternative to DNS-based blocking because of much less false-positives.
Fox news says youre a pinko commie!
Once you get money for your project from the investor, be ready to lose your project.
That's the case, which has nothing to do with politics - just business.
http://rt.com/news/durov-resigns-vkontakte-social-904/
A war is looming, thankfully.
"In Capitalism, man exploits man. In Communism, it's the other way around." - J. K. Galbraith (not verbatim)
In Russia, the government controls corporations. In USA, corporations control the government.
Even when GOSPLAN decides the prices for you?
Many people here could use take a walk around impoverished countries and see what capitalism means for most of human kind.
Yes
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
The Russian state demanded that VK release info on (Ukrainian) users who used VK to organize Euromaidan protests. Durov told them to go fuck themselves.
Now not only he's fired, but he left Russia, and he went on record saying that he has no intent of returning. Can't blame him. I had to go there on a two-week business trip, and I always had that nagging thought of shit hitting the fan while I'm on the wrong side of the border (since I'm still a Russian citizen, it would probably result in me ending up as a conscript somewhere in a trench in Ukraine).