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Based on arbitrary virtue signaling by the Namecheap CEO, is Spaceship gonna give customers one-week notice that their accounts are being dropped for committing
by unsupp0rted 3y ago
Based on arbitrary virtue signaling by the Namecheap CEO, is Spaceship gonna give customers one-week notice that their accounts are being dropped for committing the crime of being born in the wrong country, like he did at Namecheap?
> 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
- aftbit 3y agoYeah this decision really rubbed me the wrong way when it happened. Like many of the western sanctions, it disproportionately affected ordinary Russians over oligarchs. Even worse, it probably disproportionately affected what little scraps of free press remained in Russia. I understand Namecheap's logic, especially from the early days of the war, but it left a sour taste in my mouth about relying on them for business.
- lostmsu 3y agoOrdinary Russians willingly pay taxes that fund that war.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoEspecially the ones who ran away from Russia in 2022 to avoid anything to do with this
- lostmsu 3y agoI don't think they banned users based on citizenship. Maybe by accident, or some people forgot to update their addresses and perhaps payment methods.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoThey banned users based on any signal they have that those users are Russians
- aftbit 3y agoI thought they banned all .ru domains?
- aftbit 3y agoOrdinary people from anywhere "willingly" pay taxes because the alternative is jail time or worse.
- lostmsu 3y agoYeah, or, they may have to, you know, move.
- mopsi 3y ago> Based on arbitrary virtue signaling by the Namecheap CEO, is Spaceship gonna give customers one-week notice that their accounts are being dropped for committing the crime of being born in the wrong country, like he did at Namecheap? Your question contains incredible entitlement. Namecheap's staff is mostly Ukrainian and located in Kharkiv, the city that saw combat on its streets, was almost encircled, and for more than two years has suffered under daily Russian shelling and missile attacks, death and destruction unleashed by Russians are everyday companions there. Do you think Germans had any moral right to demand continuation of services from the UK when Luftwaffe was bombing London? Or that Germans had nothing to do with the Nazi regime? Just incredible. Everyone serving customers from Russia is complicit in helping the Kremlin keep up the illusion of normalcy: that nothing is wrong, that life goes on, that all you need to do is just shut off your mind and ignore the depraved war crimes that your society commits every day. And the crimes are indeed committed by the whole society: Putin alone is not building missiles, he is not programming their targets or piloting bomber planes, he is not manufacturing artillery shells, he is not on the frontline firing them at Kharkiv, he is not the one raping, looting and torturing - just like Hitler in his bunker was not waging the war against the whole world on his own, but required the overwhelming support of "ordinary Germans" to put his ideas into action. And before anyone says that "ordinary citizens" can't do anything: then whose responsibility are the things that going on in a country? Are Argentinians responsible? Are Italians? Should the Swedes intervene and bomb Moscow to ashes to slap the society back into respecting basic human decency?