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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by cpursley on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:42AM (#37076781)
And it’s antithetical to western values. Historically, we don’t do collective punishment - yet here we are.
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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by throw-ru-938 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:51AM (#37076896)
I'm sorry but having observed this since 24/02, collective punishment is very much part of the actual Western values.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Russian émigré, not in the West myself but have friends there.)

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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by pphysch on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:51PM (#37078580)
Ethnic cleansing of North America, Slave codes, yellow peril, Japanese internment, red scare, islamophobia, red scare 2.0 (ongoing), yellow peril 2.0 (ongoing)

And that's just USA.

What is "historically" supposed to mean here?

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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by mcpackieh on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:54PM (#37080932)
> Historically, we don’t do collective punishment

Of course we do. We regularly sanction countries in ways which are designed to pressure the civilian population into overthrowing their government.

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