Comment by throwaway6734
5 years ago
>Russian developers are already having bank account issues, now you spring this on them. It's really not helping the situation. They have nothing to do with these events. You're disconnecting them from the world further.
This is the point.
In a war, most of the people that end up fighting are innocent to some extent. This is economic warfare. This is Namecheap's volley.
By definition a civilian is not fighting. This policy mainly hurts civilians and doesn't harm the regime at all. Namecheap's "volley" is virtue signaling and exploiting an event at the expense of it's innocent Russian customers who trusted their brand. Why not just target oligarchs like other sanctions?
Simply donating to charities helping in the conflict would help the world a lot more and you could still write your blog post if you wanted. I guess going after the customers you collected is more viral though.
>By definition a civilian is not fighting.
They might not be bearing arms, but they are contributing to the russian economy.
Without the presence of nuclear weapons, NATO forces would be bombing moscow right now, causing significantly more economic disruption and disruption to civilians.
It's war.
>They might not be bearing arms, but they are contributing to the russian economy.
I didn't realize we were in a total war. What's next? Drone strikes so the "economy" shrinks?
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> They might not be bearing arms, but they are contributing to the russian economy.
First, that's a very weak justification to attack civilians. Second, how does stopping them from paying for a non-local service help?
> Without the presence of nuclear weapons, NATO forces would be bombing moscow right now, causing significantly more economic disruption and disruption to civilians.
I doubt it, there's a reason Ukraine isn't in NATO, but thank God for nuclear deterrence. I don't want WW3, some people seem to be jumping at the bit for it.
> It's war.
Not ours. I support aid, nothing else.
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> It's causing a disruption and lessening the productivity of the Russian economy
No it's not, if anything now more Russians will go to domain providers based in their country, keeping the money in their economy.
> If you're Russian. It is your war.
I'm not Russian. I'm not Ukrainian. Therefore it's not my war.
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