Comment by xanaxagoras
5 years ago
> People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government.
I'm in this thread getting angry and I live in California. Are you prepared to be consistent by looking into my government's "war crimes and human rights violations"?
If the US started bombing Ukraine, would you really complain about Ukrainians cutting off American access to their services?
The CEO came here to justify his actions by referring to specific violations of his personal values - a spurious claim in my opinion. Values are applied consistently, and you can bet there will be no action taken against western governments that are guilty of the same things that allegedly motivated Namecheap to do this. Instead the motivation is emotional and political, and it is unreasonable to remove services from paying customers because you're upset. I will never rely on a company that behaves like this.
> Values are applied consistently
I don’t know of many governments have have waged war in Europe recently.
You can mess around in the garden (overseas) as much as you want, as long as you keep the house clean.
That’s not fair, but it is consistent.
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We aren't removing services, we are asking people to find another provider. There are thousands out there. We aren't a monopoly here.
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Are you fucking kidding me? Questioning USA’s human rights violations and war crimes in a thread where an American company is threatening to shutdown accounts of people in a country because their leader has gone berserk is whataboutism?
So basically you’re supporting - either live in a country that’s strong enough to get away with war crimes, or be ready to get fucked whenever an extra righteous American company/CEO feels whimsical!
Or even better - if you want to talk about this very topic and point out this double standard - then do that in “another thread”, right? That is some logic!
Or maybe you just want to be saying “war crimes in some countries are more kosher than war crimes in certain other countries”.
It's not whataboutism. Blaming the actions of a government on its citizenry in this way is a stupid policy that generalizes badly. That's obviously the point and you ought to be able to tell that!