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Regardless of the interpretation of these maps, these do seem to show the power of a good tool built for the free market.

Here you have an app on everybody's phone that is such a useful tool that the government isn't even thinking to turn off in the middle of a war even when it's providing real time intelligence in the open about what is happening on the ground.

This seems like a great example of how openness in technology can overwhelm even one of the least Democratic governments through transparent infrastructure.

I bet when they were building Google maps back in the early/mid 2000s they never thought their tool would be used for real time tactical war reporting on civilian and troop movement.

Back in Feb'22 the first non-classified sign of Russian offensive were traffic jams at 3AM on all roads toward borders.

- The dark line is on the lane going south.

- Google shows the same areas as road blocks, not traffic.

- This is no where near the Moscow suburbs, as the map clearly shows.

Atrocious tweet.

Those might be blown up bridges.