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Look at European and US sanctions, they're way more clever about it: - Aim of sanctions is to turn Russians against Putin. - Obviously, you want to target tho
by sandstrom 5y ago
Look at European and US sanctions, they're way more clever about it:
- Aim of sanctions is to turn Russians against Putin.
- Obviously, you want to target those that don't already hate Putin (no point in preaching to the choir).
- Sanctions should be felt, but should also direct more anger at government than the entity doing sanctions.
- For example, sanctioning a hospital or stopping medical supplies into Russia would be a stupid sanction.
- Second, you want to focus them on people who have sway. Most sanctions are focused on the wealthy and influential Russians. Forbidding oligarchs from living luxury lives in Europe is a good one.
- Your Russian users are very unlikely to hold any sway over Putin, and I'd bet 95% of them already hate Putin (no need to convince them) -- it's a tech crowd.
- My guess is that the vast majority of Namecheap customer's are exactly the ones that will protest against Putin, or organize information campaigns against him. Removing their means of communication won't advance your objective.
- If EU/US would sanction Kasparov or Navalny that would be a 0 IQ move, it's just an extremely dumb thing. This is sort of along those lines.
(I'm not Russian btw, I live in another European country and not a customer)
- sandstrom 5y agoBy all means, promote the Ukraine point of view (I support them 100%). For example, put up links to the speech Zelenskyy did in Russian, aimed at the Russian people. Ukraine themselves understand how to fight the information war. You treat your prisoners of war well, give them tea and let them call their parents. They'll tell their parents that Putin sent them on a murder campaign on a neighbor, and that they're lucky to be alive and treated well. That's how you play the game.
- wetpaws 5y agoThey don't care about the impact or people, they just want to virtue signal.
- mopsi 5y ago> Look at European and US sanctions, they're way more clever about it: No, we're way past this with things like leading semiconductor manufacturers stopping deliveries to any Russian entity. The goal has shifted to depriving Russia of resources needed to wage a war. Soon Russians will be so poor that their government will have their hands full keeping domestic dissent under control, and hopefully won't be able to wage foreign wars. This is cancer treatment on a global scale. Unfortunately, it damages not only the tumor, but rest of the body as well, but there are no other options left.