Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians
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#2Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an 'accept cookies' type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like "Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine".
I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.
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#3Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an 'accept cookies' type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like "Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine". I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.
There've been a couple of cases I've seen on HN where people have done this on personal sites or small projects, so far.
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#4Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an 'accept cookies' type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like "Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine". I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.
Protesting against the government in Russia is a jailable offense. People have families, kids, lives. To most citizens of Russia, this war is pointless and they do not want it. But actually protesting it lands them in jail, possibly their families too. Are you suggesting that they abandon all of that just cause a website tells them that? Or is it your point that collective punishment works (it doesn't)?
Or maybe you think that if enough websites block them, people will think "well, maybe jail ain't so bad, so that i could access www.belltacospersonalsite.com"
EDIT: throttled, so reply to below comment by nope96 about calling in sick:
Call in sick -> no money -> your kids starve. Once again. It is easy to be sitting here and theorizing. Life is a lot more harsh in the former USSR.
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#5Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an 'accept cookies' type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like "Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine". I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.
Protesting against the government in Russia is a jailable offense. People have families, kids, lives. To most citizens of Russia, this war is pointless and they do not want it. But actually protesting it lands them in jail, possibly their families too. Are you suggesting that they abandon all of that just cause a website tells them that? Or is it your point that collective punishment works (it doesn't)? Or maybe you…
How can someone protest an authoritarian regime without putting themselves at risk?
Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Protesting against the government in Russia is a jailable offense. People have families, kids, lives. To most citizens of Russia, this war is pointless and they do not want it. But actually protesting it lands them in jail, possibly their families too. Are you suggesting that they abandon all of that just cause a website tells them that? Or is it your point that collective punishment works (it doesn't)? Or maybe you…
How can someone protest an authoritarian regime without putting themselves at risk?
Perhaps they decided that their children's lives are more important than your views of their regime? Until THEIR children/families/lives are threatened, their call is reasonable.
Would you sacrifice your life to save 10 people you've never heard of in a faraway place?
If you claim yes (a lie), sign your donor card and eat a bottle of aspirin. If you are truthful and you answer no, you know how Russians currently feel. They do not support this war, but the only thing they can do has no payoff and a high cost to each of them
Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians
#7Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an 'accept cookies' type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like "Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine". I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.
Protesting against the government in Russia is a jailable offense. People have families, kids, lives. To most citizens of Russia, this war is pointless and they do not want it. But actually protesting it lands them in jail, possibly their families too. Are you suggesting that they abandon all of that just cause a website tells them that? Or is it your point that collective punishment works (it doesn't)? Or maybe you…
There are other ways to protest. Calling in sick to work, in large groups, for one. There is a pandemic going on after all, it's not implausible.
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#8Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an 'accept cookies' type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like "Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine". I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.
Protesting against the government in Russia is a jailable offense. People have families, kids, lives. To most citizens of Russia, this war is pointless and they do not want it. But actually protesting it lands them in jail, possibly their families too. Are you suggesting that they abandon all of that just cause a website tells them that? Or is it your point that collective punishment works (it doesn't)? Or maybe you…
Seems like there's a move afoot to re-litigate the French revolution.
Is the government for the people or are the people for the government?
If the people exist to glorify the government, and the government exists to glorify a person, what is yours?
L'etat se moi / I would rather burn down the world than lose
Re: Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians
#9Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an 'accept cookies' type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like "Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine". I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.
Don't they all use VPNs anyway?
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#10Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an 'accept cookies' type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like "Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine". I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.
Honestly cutting Russians off from the western internet isn't a great idea. That just makes it that much easier for the Kremlin to control the narrative. It does far more to help Putin than to harm him.