Why not block only (rus) gov IPs for all services you're running?
Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
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Re: Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Stalin lived a long life and died the tyrant of Russia, same with Lenin, and Peter the Great
Stalin might have lived longer if people weren’t too terrified to check on him after a night of drinking.
Re: Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
#53I see many Russians already enraged about the war, some even doing protests against it. The fact is that most feel powerless and afraid against an autocratic government, and I feel it’s very hard to tell them to retaliate when their lives are on stake. (Maybe your country hasn’t experienced this yet, but hearing anecdotes from my country’s past I understand it’s really hard to mobilize when the next day you can be ki…
Well put. It is easy to forget that the actions of governments do not necessarily represent the will of the people.
Re: Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You might also think that the West is oppressing you and that your government's war is justified.
There was a poll done in December (YouGov) that showed that more than half of Russians thought NATO/The West was to blame for this situation.
Re: Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
#55Re: Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
#56There are at least two better things to do than outright blocking: 1. Show them the peace address to Russian people by the president of Ukraine, Zelenskyy. 2. Show them the photos of people taking shelter in Kyiv's and Kharkiv's underground metro stations. Russian media is banned from reporting anything but official information and official information lies that this is only a limited "de-nazification operation" in s…
> as they mirror the experience in Moscow under Nazi attack in WWII, Every war is the same. :)
No no, this is far worse. Major Ukrainian cities have always been considered a part of the Russian world. Russians bombing Kyiv sounds as insane as USAF bombing Philadelphia. There's no support for the war whatsover this time around, only horror and shame over what's happening, because it's touching those deep images from collective memory. The silhouette of an Orthodox church over the backdrop of a burning city[1] is like something straight out of countless movies about Nazi and Mongol invasions of Russia[2]. We see the Russian equivalents of "the smoldering wreck of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor" coming from Ukraine and it cuts much deeper.
[1] https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1496976867064270858
Re: Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
#57Re: Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's a very different and more complex situation. they did bad and good things at the same time in that area.(when I say good I mean trying to fix the mess they partly created) Russia is just straight up invading a neighboring country. there is no good in any of their current actions. I was mostly talking about what happened just after 9/11.
The situation in Ukraine might be more complex than you think.
it can be summarized as Putin want more power and access to a warm sea
Re: Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
#59Hmm. Trying to think of an instance when history reflected kindly on a li’l lite persecution of an entire population. Someone help me out?
Re: Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Number of protesting people in Russia is a joke.
Vladimir Putin is an ex-KGB officer. The country has a system for monitoring all phone communications, and the major email providers are affiliated with the state.
Also, 100% of the media is spinning the "we're liberating Ukraine from the Nazis" take, and unless you spend very considerable effort doing your own research, you just won't find a single information source telling you otherwise.
And if you get anywhere close to organizing a protest with a non-trivial number of participants. They will figure out who's in charge, and will put you behind bars as a warning to others.
That, and people generally don't trust each other, don't trust the system, and are mostly busy trying to survive, find cheap food, and not get caught in a crossfire.