LONDON, (Reuters) – Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader was jailed on Thursday. He scolded Google and Meta Platforms Inc for closing down advertising. This, he claimed had undermined opposition and therefore was a gift to President Vladimir Putin.

Russia’s prominent opposition leader Navalny casts Putin’s Russia as a corrupt state, run by criminals and thieves, where wrong is treated as right, and judges who are actually representatives of an unjust lawless nation.

Navalny made a speech to the Copenhagen Democracy Summit. She stated in writing that the technology was used by the government to arrest dissidents. However, it gave the opportunity to find the truth.

Navalny declared that the Internet gave him the power to overthrow censorship in his address. He posted a copy on his blog.

Google and Meta shut down advertising in Russia at the same moment, which is an enormous gift to Putin.

Meta and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding Navalny’s comments. Just days following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, both companies suspended advertising to Russian-speaking users.

Admiration was shown for Navalny’s willingness to return to Russia 2021 after he left Germany. He had been treated in Germany for nerve agents.

Navalny has been repeatedly denied by the Kremlin his claims that Putin has won many elections in Russia and is still considered to be Russia’s most beloved politician. The Kremlin has denied Navalny’s claim that Russia poisoned his brains.

Navalny is a former lawyer, who became famous by ridiculing Putin’s elites and making allegations of widespread corruption a decade earlier. He said that Silicon Valley’s titans had many questions to answer.

He said that they would need to determine if they are truly “neutral platforms”, and whether users should be allowed to use democracies under the same rules of repressive countries.

Given that Norway and Uganda have different views about democracy and the role of the Internet, how should it treat directives from government? He was curious.

“We love technology. We love social networks. We desire to live in an informational free society. Let’s find a way to stop the evil guys using information society to force their countries and us all into the darkness ages.