This virtue signaling is just plain stupid, same as the vodka boycott (FYI less than 2% of vodka in US is imported from Russia).
How is that statistic in any way relevant
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#282We 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…
I get that, and you're totally entitled to do this. And you're probably right that ends justify the means. And, probably, total damage will be worth it. But, in my insignificant personal case, I will be busy moving domains and paying for transfers instead of doing what I've been doing and spending money on what I've been spending it for the last 5 days, helping people detained and/or arrested for participating in ant…
Thank you for what you and your team are doing. OVD Info is very important project for Russian civil society and we shall not let you down.
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> russian people chose to live under dictatorship
Russian people are born under dictatorship and choose to live. There is a difference. See Navalny?
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#284Given that Russian vodka is blacklisted from stores in USA (and Finland!) and replaced with message "we stand with Ukraine", it's not really surprising. I read interview with somebody from Russia yesterday, russian tracks getting their tires punctured in EU and get stuck because credit cards don't work anymore. Ships refuse to offload goods in Russian ports and drop them of "wherever in Europe". Russian companies can…
Truly awful. If you listen to Russian news (propaganda) they're claiming Ukranians want Russia to come liberate them and save them from poor living conditions. It's almost as if they forgot that people have the internet.
The internet, right? How else will they learn that President Trump (not the illegitimate so-called-president Biden) supports our great leader Putin!
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#285We 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…
> tax dollars
First of all, tax rubles.
Second of all, tax rubles of your customers are negligible compared to oil money. The basic scheme of Russia is that the guards are paid the first cut of oil money. Removing even more options from the general population, and reducing their contact with the West, just makes them weaker compared to the guards. Thanks.
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#286I will respond to this one. It's good that you tried to fight the regime. Clearly it wasn't enough. You live in society, not in the woods. The majority decides how all live - like in any other country. In your country majority decided not to overthrow dictatorship. As result, minority suffers. So here is your answer.
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#287It may interest you to know that Namecheap, just a few days ago, banned a few domain names purely based on an ambiguous tweet that got 8 likes , that didn't even ask for those domains to be banned or cite any ToS violation. https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489485337885921284 Namecheap then reverted that decision when they got ratioed (with no tweets supporting their decision). I've never heard of these domain na…
This "Mean Girls" style of running a company is not something I'm willing to accept even for remotely important services.
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#288Received the same. Such a shitty move. Moving some left over from them to nic.ru Why not ban every single US and NATO country users for the slaughter of many countries including but not limited to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Libya... because of the actions of their government? Fuck this mentality that makes the life of ordinary people harder and call it "sympathy".
If an Iraqi company wanted to stop doing business with US clients during the Iraq war, they'd come across as reasonable.
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#289Wow, cancel culture come to the nations level. Can you cancel France please, they do nasty things in Africa right now, and Black Lives Matters. But anyway, breach of contract pretty nasty thing, you will probably get class action ed sometimes later. Client can be a corporation with real lawyers.
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