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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#681

until you understand that it is not countries and peoples that are at war, but elites are at war - you will continue to be a victim of your false beliefs.

There are quite literally people at war here, not elites, hundreds of thousands of them from Russia rolling into another country with tanks, artillery, guns, mines, missiles, bombs, and so on. In that other country there are hundreds of thousands of people fighting back with their own set of the above weapons, and improvised ones like Molotov cocktails. There are hundreds of thousands or millions displaced from their homes. There are millions sleeping in bomb shelters (if they have access), or the next best thing (basements, hallways away from windows, etc) hoping that they won't be killed in the night.

This war was started at the behest of an elite, Putin, but it is carried about by ordinary people, it is resisted by ordinary people, it's impacts are felt by ordinary people, it can be stopped by ordinary people.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#682
post #489

Here my two cents as someone that has visited, lived in, or good friends in authoritarian regimes such as East Germany, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Hong Kong: - in a democracy, the population is responsible for what the government does. Conversely, the more authoritarian the regime, arguably the less culpable the population is. (Of course, people shouldn't have allowed an authoritarian figure to gain power... indeed.…

From https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-... - targeted sanctions are not enough, because an autocratic leader can use his whole country as his bank account. Reynolds: I gather you think that sanctions leveled by the government are inadequate to address this much larger threat? Hill: Absolutely. Sanctions are not going to be enough. You need to have a major international response, where govern…

It's more nuanced than that. One should do business with people who are against the regime. If you stop doing business with them - those people will have to do anything to survive including being more dependent on regime's assistance, developing dependency and loosing even more of their free agency.

This is also why sanctions are targeted - you need a carrot and a stick.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#683

The point is very much to create additional cost and disruption for the Russian economy. Namecheap’s step doesn’t do much in this regard, but perhaps it convinces other services to follow suit and stop doing business with Russian entities. After all, it’s the Russian economy that pays for the war. Whatever creates a competitive disadvantage for a Russian companies will subsequently harm their revenue stream and the t…

Did the Europeans stop buying natural gas from Russia?

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#684

Could someone recommend me good alternatives? I'll be moving all of my domains. I will never support any business that decides to go political and start deplatforming/censoring, whether I agree with their views or not.

> I will never support any business that decides to go political and start deplatforming/censoring,

As it's been frequently lost in this thread, the majority of Namecheap's employees are in Ukraine (>800), so I wouldn't necessarily frame it in the same way. I would first place yourself in their shoes and ask yourself what you would do.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#686

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…

“Free speech is one thing but…”

That is despicable, assuming you are an American citizen.

Also how do you know you aren’t terminating some pro freedom sites, anyway? You disgust me.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#688

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…

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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#689

I am a Russian citizen from birth who permanently lives and works in the UK. I do not support Russian regime in any way and offered my help with relocation to Russian and Ukrainian citizens from the start - see my post in LinkedIn. On namecheap I hold non-ru related domain paid till February 2023. So what the heck they are blaming me for being Russian and terminating the contract without any agreement?

You should email their support. I don't think they actually want to terminate your particular account, I think they only want to target people and companies who are actually in Russia (so they looked for Russian addresses and payment methods on file).

Their communication on this issue was terrible in many ways, but honestly I can't blame a company who's literally being shelled today for missing the mark once.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#690

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…

Not Russian (I'm from Argentina), but I'll move all of my domains right away. This is absolutely nuts. I do not care about this war at all, but more importantly, I won't be keeping my domains in a registrar that arbitrarily cuts down on customers from being from a particular country. How anyone would support this is beyond me. New world order virtue signalling at it fullest.

> I do not care about this war at all

You said everything you had to. Wow.

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