Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT

Re:Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to... by kungpao42 on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:45AM (#30468474)

We should de-peer the russian ISPs from the internet.

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Re:Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to... by mdaniel on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:07AM (#30468735)

Or take the AT&T approach: throttle their link to 14.4k

> it seems you have exceeded your allotted foreign invasions this century; we're reducing your bandwidth until your next billing cycle

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Re:Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to... by rcpt on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:29PM (#30469721)

Telegram would do ok at 14.4

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Re:Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to... by cellis on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:06AM (#30468731)

That would just further isolate working class Russians. A dictatorship doesn’t need consent of the governed to start a war so many Russian people may not approve and now you can’t even communicate with them. I think this would be incredibly short sighted.

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Re:Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to... by marcosdumay on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:36PM (#30469793)

Nowadays dictatorships take that decision themselves. No need to impose it on them.

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Re:Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to... by x86_64Ubuntu on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:10AM (#30468769)

This will just lead to a further balkanization of the internet. China and Russia aren't going to sit by and be beholden to western tech and financial stacks when they can be cut off at any time.

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Re:Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to... by maccolgan on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:10PM (#30474953)

Who's "we"? The Internet was supposed to be decentralized from the start, to prevent actions like this.

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