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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by zolosa on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:41PM (#30508662)
The questions were valid though. Please check my account age and then can i also get the answers which op asked.
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by decebalus1 on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:07PM (#30508878)
No, they're actually not valid <in this context>. This is textbook whataboutism and not worth engaging. Cheers!
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by RyEgswuCsn on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:43PM (#30509166)
> I guess I'm asking is this, are you doing this for free publicity or for genuine moral concern.

Not all "what about all the other countries" questions are whataboutism. The author was not trying to justify the invasions because other countries were doing it too, but was to point out the inconsistency in the reasoning stated by Namecheap --- if it were a moral concern then it certainly appears to be an ingenuine one; if it were a PR move, then the pretension of it being a morally driven decision really defeats the purpose of the message.

Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by decebalus1 on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:46PM (#30509202)
The company has employees in Ukraine. I think that's a pretty good reason, isn't it?
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by tiagod on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:14AM (#30515972)
That reason was not given in the OPs tweet, that's the whole point.
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by sudosysgen on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:44PM (#30509176)
You are using whataboutism fallaciously. Pointing out double standards isn't whataboutism.
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by decebalus1 on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:45PM (#30509195)
The company has employees in Ukraine. Where's the double standard?
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by sudosysgen on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:09PM (#30509409)
From the statement: "Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia."

The double standard accusation comes from assuming good faith on the part of Namecheap.

Since I am assuming Namecheap is being truthful, the double standard is that many countries have committed far worse war crimes and human rights violations - yet Namecheap seems not to care.

If you aren't assuming good faith, and you think that the reason is actually just that they have employees in Ukraine, then the language on the notice is a lie which could only have been there to get better PR.

Since I assume good faith, I'll interpret it as a double standard instead.

Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by clusterfish on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:51PM (#30509754)
I hope your own country / city / office / home never gets shelled, so that you never have to learn the difference between caring for your home and a "double standard". Nothing easier than armchair demagoguery, until a grad shell lands in your daughter's bedroom.
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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by clusterfish on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:34AM (#30510454)
Don't bullshit me, you were talking about Namecheap's response, not other countries' sanctions.

The sanctioning countries are third parties to this conflict. You can talk about their double standards all you want, I won't disagree.

But Namecheap is not a third party to this conflict. They have full right to care more about what is happening to themselves and their families than what happens to people in other unrelated countries and their families.

Their reasoning in the email is a factual truth: war crimes in Ukraine specifically. They're allowed to care about themselves. You don't have to care about them yourself, being a third party that has the luxury of double standards in this conflict. But don't project your current position in this conflict onto them, and don't hide your envy or indifference behind demagoguery about their email's wording.

Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by sudosysgen on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:24AM (#30510769)
No, I'm not.

Namecheap has decided to suspend service to Russia because it's employees are affected by its actions, which is fine.

This isn't the same as doing it because of warcrimes and human rights violations. It's not okay to pretend that's the reason, because if it was, they'd have denied access to many more countries.

There is no demagoguery. You attempted and failed an appeal to emotion to distract from simple logic twice now.

Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by clusterfish on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:30AM (#30510817)
Yeah right. You keep trying to hairsplit one sentence because you're butthurt that nobody cared about the conflict you cared about, but now people dare to care a "lesser" conflict that you don't care about. And oh here's a story about Namecheap, let's blame them for that too.
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by sudosysgen on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @09:21AM (#30514434)
I'm not hairsplitting. This is the only justification here.

I care about this conflict just as much as the others. If you only care about conflicts that affect you personally, stop pretending that you are a human rights warrior doing this for higher ideals.

Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by AnAmericanPOV64 on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:21PM (#30508991)
By whataboutism, do you mean pointing out the West's hypocrisy? Why don't you just answer his question?

Personally, I support the banning of Russian, Saudi, and Israeli accounts. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by decebalus1 on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:45PM (#30509196)
The company has employees in Ukraine. And you're also a new account with only 2 comments specifically about this issue. What unit are you in, tovarisch?