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I think you mean: happy to prevent everyone who got out from using services like Namecheap with 7-days notice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505495 ht

I think you mean: happy to prevent everyone who got out from using services like Namecheap with 7-days notice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505495 > We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way, shape or form. People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government. If more grace time is necessary for some to move, we will provide it. Free speech is one thing but this decision is more about a government that is committing war crimes against innocent people that we want nothing to do with. Yeah I'll take all your downvotes. My family got out and I don't appreciate companies calling me a monster by accident of my birth on the wrong side of an arbitrary historical border.

jjulius 4y ago
>... I don't appreciate companies calling me a monster... At no point in that quote were you called a monster, nor were you specifically blamed for anything. This sentence is key: >I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. I empathize with how difficult the Namecheap issue may have been for you, but Namecheap did not call you a monster. They simply didn't want the tax dollars generated from you going to a cause they may not support, even if that was never your intention. Simple as that.
- unsupp0rted 4y ago
  Namecheap didn't ban people in Russia. They banned Russians... people who happen to have been born in the wrong place and aren't in that place. Oh but they didn't ban them... they simply gave them 7 days to move. Oh but they're not calling them monsters, they're simply calling them people who support a regime of monsters. Oh but they're not calling them supporters of that monstrous regime, they're calling them funders of that monstrous regime.
  - NicoJuicy 4y ago
    Tbh. You're mad at the wrong people.
    - unsupp0rted 4y ago
      If a company bans you for having been born in the wrong country and having escaped, then who should you be mad at?
      - NicoJuicy 4y ago
        It's not about being born in that country. It's about paying taxes in that country. There are also examples in that thread of people who got exceptions. One person was doing a notable job of protecting Russians against the regime. And Namecheap is 95% Ukrainian it seems. So, raging about having 7 days to move seems inconsiderate considering the situation.
  - jjulius 4y ago
    >Oh but they're not calling them monsters, they're simply calling them people who support a regime of monsters. >Oh but they're not calling them supporters of that monstrous regime, they're calling them funders of that monstrous regime. INADVERTENTLY. That's how taxes work. I disagree with different presidents and their policies and their actions, but I don't go to the people who oppose that president, but still pay federal taxes, and call them monsters. Hell, I've felt uncomfortable knowing that my tax money was used for things I disagreed with, but I also know that that did not make me a monster. You are not a monster. Nobody thinks that you are. You got screwed by Namecheap, and that fucking sucks, but you are not a monster.
    - unsupp0rted 4y ago
      How does Namecheap know what I'm doing inadvertently? They know I have the wrong-sounding name and the wrong passport perhaps. What they don't know is where I live and to whom I pay taxes. But hey: you can't ban all people in Russia from a platform without banning loads of people not in Russia too, right?
sweetheart 4y ago
I'm sorry you're experiencing this. You have every right to be fuming mad. You don't deserve to be treated any differently, and I'm really sorry that you are.
- unsupp0rted 4y ago
  You’re a sweetheart :)

jjulius 4y ago

>... I don't appreciate companies calling me a monster... At no point in that quote were you called a monster, nor were you specifically blamed for anything. This sentence is key: >I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. I empathize with how difficult the Namecheap issue may have been for you, but Namecheap did not call you a monster. They simply didn't want the tax dollars generated from you going to a cause they may not support, even if that was never your intention. Simple as that.

unsupp0rted 4y ago
Namecheap didn't ban people in Russia. They banned Russians... people who happen to have been born in the wrong place and aren't in that place. Oh but they didn't ban them... they simply gave them 7 days to move. Oh but they're not calling them monsters, they're simply calling them people who support a regime of monsters. Oh but they're not calling them supporters of that monstrous regime, they're calling them funders of that monstrous regime.
- NicoJuicy 4y ago
  Tbh. You're mad at the wrong people.
  - unsupp0rted 4y ago
    If a company bans you for having been born in the wrong country and having escaped, then who should you be mad at?
    - NicoJuicy 4y ago
      It's not about being born in that country. It's about paying taxes in that country. There are also examples in that thread of people who got exceptions. One person was doing a notable job of protecting Russians against the regime. And Namecheap is 95% Ukrainian it seems. So, raging about having 7 days to move seems inconsiderate considering the situation.
- jjulius 4y ago
  >Oh but they're not calling them monsters, they're simply calling them people who support a regime of monsters. >Oh but they're not calling them supporters of that monstrous regime, they're calling them funders of that monstrous regime. INADVERTENTLY. That's how taxes work. I disagree with different presidents and their policies and their actions, but I don't go to the people who oppose that president, but still pay federal taxes, and call them monsters. Hell, I've felt uncomfortable knowing that my tax money was used for things I disagreed with, but I also know that that did not make me a monster. You are not a monster. Nobody thinks that you are. You got screwed by Namecheap, and that fucking sucks, but you are not a monster.
  - unsupp0rted 4y ago
    How does Namecheap know what I'm doing inadvertently? They know I have the wrong-sounding name and the wrong passport perhaps. What they don't know is where I live and to whom I pay taxes. But hey: you can't ban all people in Russia from a platform without banning loads of people not in Russia too, right?

sweetheart 4y ago

I'm sorry you're experiencing this. You have every right to be fuming mad. You don't deserve to be treated any differently, and I'm really sorry that you are.

unsupp0rted 4y ago
You’re a sweetheart :)