Happy for everyone who got out.
However, you may be required to stay in your home town and not travel outside without permission if you are potentially subject to mobilization (which is the case for ~50% of men in Russia) - IANAL, there's different readings of the rules here.
Russia 101: Russia forcibly mobilizes men from occupied teritotries, most of them will die off in the spec operation, then (after war) loyal russians will be imported to that region.
Those who should take responsibility are the rich who also don't have to worry about being sent to war. The question is, how do we make them take responsibility?
Easy. Sanctions, travel bans, financial restrictions, and stop buying natgas.
Ramzan Kadirov is a regional warlord in russia, known foe decades for murder and torture. Before the war he had instagram and other social media accounts. Should the Western leaders ever take responsebility for working with blooduly dictators when it suits?
As opposed to some poor John Doe in the middle of Siberia, who protested mutiple times and got nothing but a broken skull to show for it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/09/the-ob...
Reminder: If Afghan or other refugees from the various wars and occupations in that region of the world send money to finance resistence, we in the West have a tendency to call it funding of terrorism.
Russian citizens don't bear the financial responsibility (or the moral blame) for what Putin in doing.
So — tone deaf, perhaps, but only if you have a stereotypical image of a "refugee" in your mind.
It sure is! And yet, emphasis mine:
>... everyone who did get out...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505495
> 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 the Russian regime in any way, shape or form. People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government. If more grace time is necessary for some to move, we will provide it. Free speech is one thing but this decision is more about a government that is committing war crimes against innocent people that we want nothing to do with.
Yeah I'll take all your downvotes. My family got out and I don't appreciate companies calling me a monster by accident of my birth on the wrong side of an arbitrary historical border.
At no point in that quote were you called a monster, nor were you specifically blamed for anything. This sentence is key:
>I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime.
I empathize with how difficult the Namecheap issue may have been for you, but Namecheap did not call you a monster. They simply didn't want the tax dollars generated from you going to a cause they may not support, even if that was never your intention. Simple as that.
Oh but they didn't ban them... they simply gave them 7 days to move.
Oh but they're not calling them monsters, they're simply calling them people who support a regime of monsters.
Oh but they're not calling them supporters of that monstrous regime, they're calling them funders of that monstrous regime.
>Oh but they're not calling them supporters of that monstrous regime, they're calling them funders of that monstrous regime.
INADVERTENTLY. That's how taxes work. I disagree with different presidents and their policies and their actions, but I don't go to the people who oppose that president, but still pay federal taxes, and call them monsters. Hell, I've felt uncomfortable knowing that my tax money was used for things I disagreed with, but I also know that that did not make me a monster.
You are not a monster. Nobody thinks that you are. You got screwed by Namecheap, and that fucking sucks, but you are not a monster.
What they don't know is where I live and to whom I pay taxes.
But hey: you can't ban all people in Russia from a platform without banning loads of people not in Russia too, right?
no way for me to do this. most companies are not like this but it feels like gradual lockout and the walls are closing in. thankfully I don't have family to support, but some do
I specified residency in my comment, because I (mistakenly, it seems) thought your mention of not paying Russian taxes or living in Russia meant you were a resident elsewhere. I'd be curious to learn more about what country issues almost-year-long visas without involving some sort of residency status.
It seems generally reasonable that people who have not actually formally immigrated from Russia and obtained residency elsewhere are affected by sanctions on Russian citizens.
If I legally reside in your country for a long time, do not use Russian financial system or pay taxes to Russian government, do not plan to return to Russia, haven't had a Russian customer in my freelancing career (not working in your country, that would be illegal, but working with customers in other countries) I know I'm a Russian tourist in your eyes and the eyes of immigration officers but no matter how you spin it legally in reality I've been a resident of your country.
There are also examples in that thread of people who got exceptions. One person was doing a notable job of protecting Russians against the regime.
And Namecheap is 95% Ukrainian it seems. So, raging about having 7 days to move seems inconsiderate considering the situation.