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Showing support for Ukraine is good, but blocking Russian visitors can only help Putin make ordinary Russians - which jad no say in his war policies - feel under siege, which is exactly what Putin wants.
It doesn’t matter it’s a dictatorship they are powerless.
dozens?maybe hundreds?
Putin will fall at some point, just like everyone before him, he's not a god, it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when.
Not a good idea to harass people because you don't like what their government is doing.
* if you don't like that their government is starting a war and murderring inocent people. it might be the only way substantial contrarian views can reach them, since major news media is strongly censored. I would make it strongly worded and optional, click here to continue if you don't support Putin's war.
as I don't speak russian I only put a very basic default message
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Dude, they lock you in Russia up if you protest too much. Russia is a full-blown dictatorship now with Internet censorship, state-operated propaganda and other bells'n'whistles.
They lock you up in a lot of places for the same reasons. Even in the US or in Europe you might get killed at a protest. There is people protesting in Russia right now, no matter the risks, I don't see the harm in trying to increase their numbers.
Not a good idea to harass people because you don't like what their government is doing.
Annoying them enough might push more people to protest. The softest option of the script is one alert() message once a day, that doesn't seems like harassment, the strictest option is to redirect you to a form on the russian government website, that's more debatable but that's up to you, you can also run custom code. If you're annoyed/blocked while trying access a website you like because your government is oppressiv…
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Annoying them enough might push more people to protest. The softest option of the script is one alert() message once a day, that doesn't seems like harassment, the strictest option is to redirect you to a form on the russian government website, that's more debatable but that's up to you, you can also run custom code. If you're annoyed/blocked while trying access a website you like because your government is oppressiv…
I suppose statistically speaking you might be right, though I find it hard to imagine what kind of person is going to risk beatings or years in prison or worse over a minor inconvenience like being unable to view their favourite website. I think depending on the person this could go either way. Perhaps they feel spurned, isolated, or blamed personally, and respond with anger.
if dozens of websites do the same that might push people to protest
internet is a huge part of our lives, most people use it for hours everyday, it can be more than a minor inconvenience
How come no one ever does this when it's America killing innocent civilians? I don't support the war but I'm somewhat amazed at the reaction people are having to it. I don't think the plight of those in the middle east ever reverberated like this
if anything I resent more the US gov than the Russian gov, it's just that it's happening right now
I just don’t see a point treating ordinary Russians as “sinful” because of this event. If you’re enforcing standards like these on everyone, then I guess the entire US population is also responsible for all the the war crimes and atrocities the country has done for decades. And I don’t want to do that; even if the current elite controlling the US has done some of the most atrocious things in history, I don’t think the people living there “deserve” worse lives because they haven’t retaliated.
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It doesn’t matter it’s a dictatorship they are powerless.
How many dictators fell over the last few centuries? dozens?maybe hundreds? Putin will fall at some point, just like everyone before him, he's not a god, it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when.
The translation is correct, but it says “[a] protest against the war”. If you want to imply a call to protest, it should be “протестуйте против войны».