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“Not for military use” is a perfectly fine condition for an ISP to impose on their services. There is a tendency recently to view Ukrainian victory over Russia
by fwlr 4y ago
“Not for military use” is a perfectly fine condition for an ISP to impose on their services. There is a tendency recently to view Ukrainian victory over Russia as some kind of overriding moral imperative, so much so that other morals are being suspended e.g. I see otherwise sensible people celebrating and retweeting gruesome videos of Russian soldiers being blown up. It’s probably a good thing for a corporation to insist on their boundaries in the face of a moral imperative like that.
- gamblor956 4y agoTIL I learned that we should feel bad for the Russian soldiers being blown up, and not the thousands of Ukrainian citizens, including children, that Russian soldiers have blown up.
- snovymgodym 4y agoI don't know what to tell you. War is sad and gruesome. It's sad for the Ukrainian civilians being killed and it's sad for for the Russian mobiks who are sent to the trenches to be HIMARS-fodder. I'm glad Russia is having a hard time with their war. I'm not glad that thousands of young men are being sent into a meat grinder.
- fwlr 4y agoI did not say we should feel bad for Russian soldiers dying (though we should), and I definitely did not say we should not feel bad for Ukrainian children dying (we definitely should). I said we should not celebrate videos of Russian soldiers dying in particularly gruesome ways, an instance of the more general moral principle that death and suffering are bad. This is what I meant about the moral imperative of Ukrainian victory overriding other moral concerns.
- hgsgm 4y agoMusk was happy to have Starlink used for military purposes when DoD was paying the bill.
- Zigurd 4y agoA partial victory for Putin in Ukraine is an invitation to invade Moldova, the Baltic nations, and every other part of Europe Putin thinks is his rightful sphere of influence. If you think this war is costly, consider the cost of continuing Russian revanchism.
- dzhiurgis 4y ago> A partial victory for Putin in Ukraine is an invitation to invade Moldova, the Baltic nations, and every other part of Europe Putin thinks is his rightful sphere of influence. This isn't any sort of news or new development and has been known for decades.