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Remember that time a year ago in February when the Namecheap CEO gave every person with a Russian ID, living inside and outside Russia, 1-week notice that their
by unsupp0rted 3y ago
Remember that time a year ago in February when the Namecheap CEO gave every person with a Russian ID, living inside and outside Russia, 1-week notice that their account is terminated and they have to host elsewhere?
Including expats, refugees, objectors, what have you. Your contract with Namecheap is terminated for being connected to Russia. Prove to us you're not, if you want to keep your service.
His justification? Well we have a lot of Ukrainian staff and you know, we're not with Russia therefore we're against Russia, therefore...
> If we were virtue signaling we wouldn't willingly be giving up a not non significant part of our business. This hurts us financially but it's the right thing to do, at least for us.
Your leader/country is already killing innocent civilians/ukranians. They are putting it all on the line with their lives. They didn't ask for this yet they are dying for it. Change needs to come and the only way it can is for the Russian population to put it on the line as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505789
- talldatethrow 3y ago[flagged]
- cpymchn 3y agoTo take you literally for a moment: if anyone can claim land across a border, based on a historical grievance, then no border would stand. 70 years without a border war in Europe, so yeah we should try to push that water back up the hill. Otherwise a recursive "I would like my land back please."
- _v7gu 3y ago70 years? I wish I was living in that Europe
- h0h0h0h0111 3y agoKosovo, Northern Ireland, Cyprus
- unsupp0rted 3y agoWhatever a person's stance on ongoing political events or active conflicts, punishing them en masse for choosing to be born on the wrong side of an arbitrary border is nonsensical.
- cpursley 3y agoAnd it’s antithetical to western values. Historically, we don’t do collective punishment - yet here we are.
- throw-ru-938 3y agoI'm sorry but having observed this since 24/02, collective punishment is very much part of the actual Western values. (Disclaimer: I'm a Russian émigré, not in the West myself but have friends there.)
- pphysch 3y agoEthnic cleansing of North America, Slave codes, yellow peril, Japanese internment, red scare, islamophobia, red scare 2.0 (ongoing), yellow peril 2.0 (ongoing) And that's just USA. What is "historically" supposed to mean here?
- mcpackieh 3y ago> Historically, we don’t do collective punishment Of course we do. We regularly sanction countries in ways which are designed to pressure the civilian population into overthrowing their government.
- oneshtein 3y agoWhat you actually do to protect sacred 1991 borders of Ukraine? Are you helping children, who lost parts of their body, for example?
- talldatethrow 3y agoThat was tongue in cheek/sarcasm. I think it's insane people are dying for this.
- oneshtein 3y agoIf a killer will break-in a house and kill someone, it's not about doors or walls.
- talldatethrow 3y agoThis wasn't a killer that broke in and killed someone. This was more like going to an old friend and asking for something you left there years ago.
- mrguyorama 3y agoOh god no. Ukraine DOES NOT WANT TO BE RUSSIA. They got that experience, it sucked awfully. This is like an emancipated child being abducted.
- throw-ru-938 3y agoThere are people living on that land, it's not a "thing".
- mcpackieh 3y agoThe Russian military are literally killers breaking into Ukraine and killing people.
- talldatethrow 3y agoI'm pretty sure the first shot was fired by Ukrainians.