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In another forum I've seen pictures of so-called Russian 'saboteurs' and their belongings. Lots of SIM cards and ways to get connected. If Google record the IP address, or even the MAC address, of whomever adds to Maps then perhaps they can share that with ISPs so these devices can be monitored or blacklisted.

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Google cannot see end device MAC addresses.

And they pretty much use VPNs or burner phones so that's probably a dead end anyway.

Google shouldn't be picking sides in international conflicts like that.

Why not?

They used to explicitly have a "do no evil" slogan. It'd be good if it survives somewhere in their culture for times like these.

>"do no evil"

iirc "don't be"

>used to

they have

Why not? Because if they were to side with the "good", then they should stop serving their own US administration.

The US doesn't have the best track record either(read the worst), but I'd rather them have a "we will not support any belligerent at war" instead of picking a side policy.

I fully expect them to be on the side of the US, always. Why would you think otherwise?

Generally speaking, the current generation of large infra/content providers do not appreciate countries taking advantage of their services to harm their customers and will intervene to negate or deter such actions.

I'd describe that as being aggressively neutral, not picking sides.

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