Comment by eps

5 years ago

This inflicts pain on regular Russian people.

While I understand the need to take a moral stand, this doesn't actually accomplish much. I commented on this before and it bears repeating - the population is heavily brainwashed and many people will view your move as yet another action by the West against the righteous side that they are. Pain, but no reaction.

You want to actually make a difference - keep the service up, let Putin cut it off and let their own regime inflict the very same pain that you are about to inflict. This will net both the pain and a reaction. The way things are going, it will come to exactly that and very soon. They didn't build and test in-country DNS for giggles.