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I just thought it sounded a bit extreme to make a potential visit to Crimea sound like "he may have thrown toddlers into a volcano". I get the "our hands are ti
by luckylion 7y ago
I just thought it sounded a bit extreme to make a potential visit to Crimea sound like "he may have thrown toddlers into a volcano". I get the "our hands are tied" argument, but even then, communication should be clear and honest and not follow Google's support handbook.
RE github staying impartial: yes, that would be nice. I suppose there would be a market for independent countries to do this, but I doubt it's large enough to outweigh the damage done by resisting the pressure of the big players.
- leggomylibro 7y agoYeah, it's a fair point, but this seems reasonable to me if you accept that they are already looking at peoples' login locations and trying to keep their platform civilian. If a nominally-Turkish user started regularly logging in from Syria, I could see there being the same sort of military/security concerns. And I could see that user getting just as indignant if they were, say, an aid worker. Is it right? Probably not, but it seems understandable when state-sanctioned violence is involved.