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I find this action from Namecheap really lazy virtue signalling and your justifications to be hypocritical, for reasons pointed out elsewhere in this thread. I

I find this action from Namecheap really lazy virtue signalling and your justifications to be hypocritical, for reasons pointed out elsewhere in this thread. If you were really interested in attempting to do the right thing, you would ban on a case-by-case basis, or donate a percentage of your profits to the Red Cross in Ukraine or something. There's no justification for this heavy-handed nonsense. I'll do my best to stay away from your company.

orangetuba 5y ago
Someone should make a list of websites and services that ban users based on ethnicity/nationality. I for one, will stay away from services like namecheap (I am neither Russian nor Ukranian), simply because this doesn't help anyone, but will be used as justification by the pro-Putin guys.
- Mezzie 5y ago
  I'm curious what it's going to look like 40-60 years from now then the US finally fractures. All the Americans in here who think this could never be our problem are 100% wrong.
  - MaysonL 5y ago
    Just reading an interesting SF novel (Ken Macleod's Beyond the Hallowed Sky) where one of the geopolitical plot points is that America has returned to democracy (although still having a substantial crazy demographic).
    - Mezzie 5y ago
      Oh, that looks interesting. Space operas aren't normally my thing, but I'm a sucker for multiple POVs/story threads. (I'm just on HN for the book recs. I'm using you all. Sorry.) As somebody who works in politics, I'd say that everywhere has a substantial crazy demographic and one of the fundamental problems any governing system has to address is what to do with them. (And of course, that's assuming they can all agree on which demo are the crazy ones...)
barsonme 5y ago
75% of their company is based in Ukraine.
valdiorn 5y ago
Russian forces are literally bombing their offices in Kharkiv. How is it "virtue signaling" to say you're not happy to sell your services to the country trying to kill you? this whole thread and people's responses disgust me, people saying they're virtue signaling, and that it's "bad business practice" to cut off services like that. They're in a warzone and this is what people are upset about?!

orangetuba 5y ago

Someone should make a list of websites and services that ban users based on ethnicity/nationality. I for one, will stay away from services like namecheap (I am neither Russian nor Ukranian), simply because this doesn't help anyone, but will be used as justification by the pro-Putin guys.

Mezzie 5y ago
I'm curious what it's going to look like 40-60 years from now then the US finally fractures. All the Americans in here who think this could never be our problem are 100% wrong.
- MaysonL 5y ago
  Just reading an interesting SF novel (Ken Macleod's Beyond the Hallowed Sky) where one of the geopolitical plot points is that America has returned to democracy (although still having a substantial crazy demographic).
  - Mezzie 5y ago
    Oh, that looks interesting. Space operas aren't normally my thing, but I'm a sucker for multiple POVs/story threads. (I'm just on HN for the book recs. I'm using you all. Sorry.) As somebody who works in politics, I'd say that everywhere has a substantial crazy demographic and one of the fundamental problems any governing system has to address is what to do with them. (And of course, that's assuming they can all agree on which demo are the crazy ones...)

barsonme 5y ago

75% of their company is based in Ukraine.

valdiorn 5y ago

Russian forces are literally bombing their offices in Kharkiv. How is it "virtue signaling" to say you're not happy to sell your services to the country trying to kill you? this whole thread and people's responses disgust me, people saying they're virtue signaling, and that it's "bad business practice" to cut off services like that. They're in a warzone and this is what people are upset about?!