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Why are they doing the government's work for them, and blocking Russia? Let the Russian government do the blocking. It's not your job to enforce authoritarianis
by stickfigure 5y ago
Why are they doing the government's work for them, and blocking Russia? Let the Russian government do the blocking. It's not your job to enforce authoritarianism, and no country west of Belarus is going to extradite you for providing email.
- daxelrod 5y agoPresumably, they and their lawyers believe they are subject to Russian jurisdiction. Why else would they have challenged an order from the Russian government in Russian court?
- mnw21cam 5y agoStopping people signing up in the first place means that in a few months' time when the government actually starts blocking, they don't get a load of angry customers demanding their money back.
- patrakov 5y ago> Why are they doing the government's work for them, and blocking Russia? In order to avoid outgoing mail to Russian mail providers from being blocked. I.e., if the government blocks them, then BOTH Russian and Western users suffer (Russians because they can't access the service without technical tricks, and both because they can't send mail to Russian users of other mail providers). If they block Russian user signups themselves or can otherwise kinda-sorta-legitimately claim that they don't have Russian users, then only Russian users who don't have a VPN suffer from being unable to access the service.