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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by onlyafan »

exizt88 wrote: post #29
Symbiote wrote: post #22

They have 1700 staff in Ukraine, by far the majority of their employees, so it's not surprising that they see things differently to others. https://www.namecheap.com/careers/ukraine/

I don't know how this is relevant. I am very much against this war, but there is very little I can do to stop it as a regular citizen. I'm currently doing everything I can to flee the country, as I don't think my family is not safe here. I don't understand how this is supposed to harm Putin's regime or any of his supporters.

Disrupting the everyday lives of Russian citizens is an effective way to incite change. Some will choose to flee the chaos, but some will choose to protest and fight the regime.

Will there be good Russians unfairly hurt as collateral damage? Yes.

But the Ukrainian civilians being gunned down in the streets and having their homes blown up are also being unfairly hurt. There is very little they can do to stop it, but they've been forced to drop everything and fight.

Like it or not, you're on one side of a war. It's to be expected that your life will be inconvenienced - so have lives on the other side. You can flee - nothing wrong with that - or you can protest, but you can't hope that you won't be impacted.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by blamarvt »

exizt88 wrote: post #36
wruxes wrote: post #33

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Have you ever lived under a dictatorship? You do realise we can't just vote him out? He has guns pointed at us as well.

The people holding the guns are still just people though right? I think the point of these economic pressures is to eventually have those people with the guns turn around and point them on Putin.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by rmnc »

This is really wrong. I'm a Russian national, and I'm not supporting aggression towards Ukraine. In contrast, I've spent last two days in police after being detained due to the fact that I dared to express my condemnation in public protest.

I am not my government, and apart from starting a one-man revolution with a pretty obvious result, I'm doing everything I can to raise awareness, condemn actions of Russian government, and put an end to this. I've been doing so since 2011, back when I was a college student.

Namecheap -- this is a low move. While I do understand that your company has a lot of Ukrainian employees, all of which are in grave danger, you're not doing anyone a favor by making a shitty life of most Russian nationals even shittier.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by asats »

Symbiote wrote: post #26
fmcoder wrote: post #14

Isn't it a discrimination based on nationality? We're a small company in Russia and things are already hard for us. And now this. We do not support Putin or his war, why hit on us?

They are targeting users in Russia, not Russians. Ultimately, people in Russia are paying taxes towards this war, and have some responsibility for their government.

I'm in the US, also got the email.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by fmcoder »

exizt88 wrote: post #29
Symbiote wrote: post #22

They have 1700 staff in Ukraine, by far the majority of their employees, so it's not surprising that they see things differently to others. https://www.namecheap.com/careers/ukraine/

I don't know how this is relevant. I am very much against this war, but there is very little I can do to stop it as a regular citizen. I'm currently doing everything I can to flee the country, as I don't think my family is not safe here. I don't understand how this is supposed to harm Putin's regime or any of his supporters.

Yup, it's actually making things harder for us to move away from Russia. One more thing to deal with. And this NameCheap's decision didn't hurt Putin even a tiny bit.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by tharne »

allisdust wrote: post #12

This is quite unprofessional of them. Unless the jurisdiction specifically forbids it, taking sides like this and kicking out their paying customers with little notice is nothing but opportune posturing that reeks of deplatforming. Don't take out your grievances on already subjugated population.

This isn't a business or political issue for them. See the response from the CEO in this discussion. They have employees on the ground in Ukraine who's lives are in danger right now. Given that, I understand why they are not that concerned about the fairness of it.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

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Post by NamecheapCEO »

fmcoder wrote: post #45
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…

I'm moving our of Russia with my family. I was glad that my business was already outside of it. Now this domain stuff just added up to a pile of problems I must solve. And the effect is negative - I moved domains out of NameCheap to Russia simply because any other US or EU based registrar can do the same crazy thing and are not trusted. So Putin's regime actually got more money out of this.

Sure but I don't want our company to be a factor in that contribution. I'm sure there are plenty of others out there willing to take the money and provide these services. If there are anti-government non profits out there, We'll consider keeping those up with us if you'd still want anything to do with us.

If you are no longer based in Russia and not doing business there, we'll consider that as well.

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