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Google Updated their TERMS AND CONDITIONS for Coding Competitions
By UnitedStates, 2 years ago, In English 
Each Contest is void in Crimea, North Korea, Quebec, the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic, and where prohibited by law.
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what's wrong with Quebec, lol?

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    Quebec has really strict laws around competitions and raffles, you have to go through a long process with their government to organize anything there. As a consequence most competitions with prizes instead choose to not deal with them and declare the contest void in Quebec.

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surprised they didn't prohibit Russia.

Probably only because they have lots of people

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    Most likely they are doing this for legal reasons, not to make a statement. At least that is the primary reason.

    There is now an embargo on the DNR and LNR. While there are sanctions on Russia, there is no such embargo against them. I am not a lawyer, but it could very well be that it is illegal for Google as an American company to hold a competition with monetary prizes in Donetsk and Luhansk.

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