Antisemitism is often referred to as "racism" and the specific domain of the word "Russian" is varied from person to person, so thanks for nitpick I guess?
In any case, I was referring to that specific "evil ${ethnicity/nationality/culture}" trope, tracing back to the day when Belarus and Ukraine had also been referred to as "Russians"
> replace with whatever nationality you like.
It has a ring of "evil Jews" to it. That's the replacement placeholder I use as a benchmark of wether something is appropriate to say out-loud.
Not ONCE have I had any negative experience, invasion of my privacy, with any russian product.
The only negativity I experienced was caused by services I pay for (as a German) being blocked because I was in Russia.
I strongly urge people to reconsider that the Russian people are not evil, and that Russian intelligence services do not give a fuck about random people using services in Russia. Now consider that Nginx is not in Russia, its open source, and quickly it becomes clear that this whole discussion is motivated only by a boogie-man type fearmongering and nothing else.
You should be much more afraid of any tech that isnt open source, that you use, than this.
Apologies for the tone - I am just very sick and tired of this kind of talk, and as a German it reminds me of what we read in our own history books about inducing fear based on where one is from.