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Redirect Russia
Block Russian traffic on your website to support Ukraine
@mickc79 I've heard this argument a lot. And I really don't understand where you're coming from. My friends have to hide in basements in Kiev while the Russian army bombs the whole city and you are concerned how the western sanctions will hit the Russian economy?
As someone has said elsewhere: "The only real chance to stop the war is for someone to overthrow the mad aggressor - it will be either someone in his inner circle or the Russian people. But you might be surprised to learn that 60% of population in Russia directly supports the war, so it is OK if they have to feel a bit uncomfortable. Everybody in Russia should absolutely be targeted with sanctions and feel the urgency to act until this stops."
Or as someone else put it: "Unless there’s a button that Ukrainians can click to prevent a rocket strike on their apartment building, there shouldn’t be any button to click through this block. As someone who has had to flee Ukraine and has friends and family with missiles striking in their neighborhood, I can assure you that the inconvenience of having a service blocked pales in comparison to the fear I hear in people’s voices and messages from Ukraine."
@carlobadini Hey thanks for the reply.
The fact that you hear this argument a lot alongside the number of upvotes my comment has had would indicate that - like most things - this issue isn't as black and white as you might like it to be.
You've stated a few things and largely I agree:
- Putin is a madman and needs stopped. Yup, totally agree. - What's happening in The Ukraine is atrocious. Yup, I totally TOTALLY agree
My take on this is that regular Russians can't have any effect on their insane leader. I mean I live in the UK and OUR leaders are crazy and we, "The People" can't do jack about it, so what hope do regular Russians have against that gangster. murdering lunatic.
Further, even if your 60% statistic is true (which is almost certainly isn't) then that still leaves nearly half the population.
What's going on is atrocious and it's causing me anxiety even from the relative safety of my home in the UK, but I disagree that blanket punishing everyone in Russia is the right move. For every A-Hole that this might hurt, there might also be a mother trying to buy supplies for her baby who might also get hurt - an extreme analogy but the point is valid.
@mhangaard "It's that simple" really? And how do you suggest the largely impoverished Russian civilians do that against this lunatic? I think the Oligarchs and the super rich need to step up, definitely.
Saying that the Russian citizens getting rid of Putin is "that simple" is ludicrous.
@carlobadini and I have been working on Redirect Russia for the past few days.
Like so many, we were absolutely shocked by the Russian attack on Ukraine. Having family in Kiev, this invasion affects my co-founder Carlo personally, and like so many -- we felt absolutely powerless in the face of this geopolitical drama.
With Redirect Russia, we want to do our small part to support the western sanctions against Russia. With one line of code anyone can easily block traffic from Russia. Effectively shutting Russia off from the rest of the world. Let’s hope that all sanctions combined bring Putin and his regime to their knees!
If you manage a website, please consider installing the script! It's asynchronous, meaning that it shouldn't affect the page load time, and it has a cryptographically secure SRI Hash so you know that we can't meddle with the open source script.
@carlobadini I see this, and I'm seeing my own situation as Cuban. In Cuba there is a dictatorship as everybody knows, and I see this "403" many times every day. The dictatorship doesn't care about it, they have the power over us, they have the weapons, they have the money, they have everything. At the end, we are the most affected, the common people who don't have access to platforms that could benefit and empower us.
Yes, under the same logic of Redirect Russia we don't have access to PayPal, Stripe, Amazon, GitHub, Binance, Shopify, etc. Even Spotify, Netflix, and TikTok are blocked for us. We can't pay on Play Store, we can't download anything on App Store... we are not citizens on the internet, we are nobodies. We only can use VPN to have some access to these platforms but if PayPal (example) detects that we are accessing from Cuba they block our funds, and we lost the money. Is it fair?
I support Ukraine People, and my heart is broken with this f**ing war, but this is not ok.
Do you mind creating "Redirect USA" in order to punish all regular USA citizens for the wars that their government created in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia and the humanitarian crisis and lose of life associated with those? What about "Redirect Israel" to punish regular Israeli citizens for their government's treatment of the Palestinian people?
Regular citizens don't have anything to do with the horrible things their dictatorial people in power are doing. What do you think a regular working class citizen who lives paycheck to paycheck and needs to feed a family of 5 is going to do? Go and overthrow a government who holds all the power and weapons and risk the wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family? We can barely achieve anything when protesting in the West, do you think that you'd have better luck if you go protest against a dictatorial regime?
I'm sure you have good intentions, but in my opinion this is a bad on this horrible situation. This app only hurts regular citizens whilst the people that actually hold the power won't even notice.
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