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The CEO came here to justify his actions by referring to specific violations of his personal values - a spurious claim in my opinion. Values are applied consist
by xanaxagoras 5y ago
The CEO came here to justify his actions by referring to specific violations of his personal values - a spurious claim in my opinion. Values are applied consistently, and you can bet there will be no action taken against western governments that are guilty of the same things that allegedly motivated Namecheap to do this. Instead the motivation is emotional and political, and it is unreasonable to remove services from paying customers because you're upset. I will never rely on a company that behaves like this.
- NamecheapCEO 5y agoWe aren't removing services, we are asking people to find another provider. There are thousands out there. We aren't a monopoly here.
- xanaxagoras 5y agoSo given that context - that you're not removing services - what is the meaning of the "whitelist" you've mentioned in several other comments? What are those users being whitelisted from?
- anonymoushn 5y agoIf you pay for some service for a year and the provider stops providing it after 1 month, would you agree that the provider has not removed the service?
- Aeolun 5y ago> Values are applied consistently I don’t know of many governments have have waged war in Europe recently. You can mess around in the garden (overseas) as much as you want, as long as you keep the house clean. That’s not fair, but it is consistent.
- fuy 5y agoThis is proper racist post-colonialism, or am I missing sarcasm tag?
- Aeolun 5y agoNo, no, this is me trying to indicate what is implicitly said by getting so worked up about an invasion of Ukraine while being perfectly fine with one in Iraq. I mean, people weren't exactly fine with it, but I didn't see anyone sanctioning the US govt either. Of course the alternative is saying that it's fine as long as it's us (western'ish world) invading them, instead of us being invaded, but that's even more hypocritical.
- fuy 5y agoYes, I see, thanks for clearing it up. I understand and can agree with this reasoning, - even if as a Russian (anti Putin and anti war, of course), this war is just too painful and too overwhelming for me to consider it in a broader anti-colonialist picture.
- propagandist 5y agoBeautiful. FTR I'm totally against the war and completely understand where namecheap is coming from. But this is proper racist.
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- Yoofie 5y agoI would also call it xenophobia as well. I can't believe what I'm reading here.
- jwmhjwmh 5y ago> You can mess around in the garden (overseas) as much as you want, as long as you keep the house clean. > That’s not fair, but it is consistent. I guess xanaxagoras was just assuming that the CEO of Namecheap had basic human decency.