Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

Post by kristofferR » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 11:12 PM UTC

bakugo wrote: post #149

NamecheapCEO wrote: post #42

We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support…

Everything about this screams immaturity. You didn't think about this, how it would affect others, whether or not it would actually improve anything for anyone, etc. This doesn't affect the Russian government in any way whatsoever. You are not making a difference, not a positive one anyway. You're acting purely based on spite, attacking mostly innocent people in any way you can purely because they are living under a…

Post by tlogan » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 11:13 PM UTC

exizt88 wrote: post #65

NamecheapCEO wrote: post #42

We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support…

> People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government. Believe me, I'm very angry at my government. Unlike you, I've been protesting the regime for several years, putting my health and well-being at risk. I've donated thousands of dollars to anti-regime organizations. And I'm currently in the process of fleeing the country because of this. So I'm also very angry at you, for screwing me…

Post by Russian » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 11:13 PM UTC

woodruffw wrote: post #112

raxi wrote: post #109

But such moves only shows the unreliability of businesses that preach net neutrality and similar things and in fact discriminate based on ethnicity. So they show that Putin is right, that democracy and liberalism are dead, that Ukrainians are nazi, and rally people around him even more.

Net neutrality is a concept in American telecommunications law, not an international political or philosophical concept. It has nothing to do with Russia, and even less to do with services running on the Internet: it solely concerns itself with the relationship between ISPs and the traffic they carry. Namecheap is not an ISP.

Post by traveller_aa » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 11:14 PM UTC

datavirtue wrote: post #143

effnamecheap wrote: post #23

Simply an American, and I’ll be moving my dozen domains off of Namecheap. Attacking random Russians for something you don’t like of their leader is as dumb as post-9/11 Sikh bashing or interning German/Italian/Japanese after Pearl Harbor and the war declaration. Way to make a shit situation worse.

It's a sanction. Meant to cause contention within their society to promote regime change. Think of it as tough love.

Post by sandstrom » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 11:14 PM UTC

datavirtue wrote: post #143

effnamecheap wrote: post #23

Simply an American, and I’ll be moving my dozen domains off of Namecheap. Attacking random Russians for something you don’t like of their leader is as dumb as post-9/11 Sikh bashing or interning German/Italian/Japanese after Pearl Harbor and the war declaration. Way to make a shit situation worse.

It's a sanction. Meant to cause contention within their society to promote regime change. Think of it as tough love.