> These people are employed by companies specifically called out on sanctions

I don't believe you know this for a fact. Are you able to point me where a list of each developer, their association, and the problem with that association is enumerated?

> not excluded "due to first or last name"

https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/10/24/177

That post has nothing about names. Serge works for Baikal Electronics who produces electronics for the Russian military and is explicitly sanctioned.