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Remove the ability to add new places and businesses at Ukraine's Google Maps

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Petition is addressed to: Google LLC

Since 28th of February, people started to notice unverified businesses called "Фермерське Господарство" (which means "Farm") appearing all over Kyiv's at Google Maps. They've also been created in some other cities in a smaller quantity.
As of March 3, the following names were noticed: "ФЕРМЕРСЬКЕ ГОСПОДАРСТВО", "СЕЛЯНСЬКЕ ГОСПОДАРСТВО", "ОБСЛУГОВУЮЧИЙ КООПЕРАТИВ", "СТРАХОВА ГРУППА", "МАЛЕ ПРИВАТНЕ ПІДПРИЄМСТВО", "new generation z", "Edemus"
Kyiv and many other cities are currently in a war state because of russian aggression. It's impossible for so many real farms to appear at this moment.
Ukrainian people took action and started reporting these suspicious businesses which led to most of them being removed from Google Maps. Although, this solution is not as effective since it requires 24/7 maps monitoring and business removal isn't instant. At the same time, some of them might have been simply missed.
To conclude:
+ Can we say for sure that these coordinates are being used to coordinate attacks on Ukraine's cities? - 50/50.
+ Can we say for sure that it is impossible for so many farms to instantly appear in highly-populated urban areas? - Yes!
+ Can we say for sure that Ukrainian people do not need the ability to create new businesses on Google Maps during the war? - Yes!
+ As an additional request, it would be great to remove all Ukraine's Google Maps places created after the 23rd of February.
We ask Google not to close Google Maps in Ukraine, but to close the ability to create new businesses and places!
This is a safe solution that doesn't harm Ukrainian people in any way, but might ruin some awful plans for russian aggressor.

Reason

Ukraine is currently being attacked by russian aggressor. Our military forces do the best job we could ever ask for by defending the lives of civil Ukrainian people.
In this petition, we do not ask for something that can harm Google. People in Ukraine simply do not need the ability to create new places at Google Maps right now, while russian aggressor can use the coordinates to correlate their attacks.
Even if it's only a chance, let's remove this chance of more people dying for nothing!

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Petition started: 03/01/2022
Petition ends: 03/28/2022
Region: European Union
Topic: Security

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