Comment by genocidicbunny
5 years ago
I don't see why this action would affect your decision. Factoring in the risk that a business might suddenly stop wanting to interact with you has _always_ been part of the calculus.
Private businesses are free to choose who they do business with. Getting randomly cut off has always been a possibility.
> I don't see why this action would affect your decision. Factoring in the risk that a business might suddenly stop wanting to interact with you has _always_ been part of the calculus.
Because seeing this actually play out means that everyone should update their priors about how probable those risks are? Getting randomly cut off has always been a possibility, but the probability in everyone's priors just went way up.
Not really? If you were operating in a country that has been rather openly hostile to the west and Ukraine, and you were relying on a company that was based in the west and had many Ukrainian employees, and you didn't have a contingency plan for things heating up between those countries, you weren't paying attention.
This isn't a random cutoff. This is being cut off because the country you operate in is engaging in open hostilities against another country. That should be an entirely expected and planned for scenario when hostilities are growing.
I don't know how to respond to this because you are responding to the particulars of this decision (which aren't relevant to people that don't live in Russia) without looking at what it represents.
NC's willingness to do this in this case means that everyone needs to update their priors about when else they might do something similar. When people have been historically principled about something but take an allegedly one time stance against the principle, you update your priors. I don't know what else to tell you lol.
> This is being cut off because the country you operate in is engaging in open hostilities against another country.
Why do you think I live/operate a business in Russia lol. Literally nothing I have said or done in this thread suggests that.
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> That should be an entirely expected
So now in addition to all things I need to consider using a service from $SOMECOMPANY I should also:
check where is their registration (simple)
check where is their main office is located (not that easy)
check where is their support located (how the hell I could know)
check anything else which could be a thing two weeks later?
Do YOU knew where Namecheap hires their support?