• Vincent@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    …and we don’t know whether they’re the former or the latter, no? So maybe a little early to get outraged?

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      6 hours ago

      Would you say that Linux contributors with ties to MIT and other US universities that get funding from the same organizations of the MIC and intelligence racket are suspect? No? Yeah just Russians. Cold War propaganda chugging little twerp

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        2 hours ago

        No, I’m saying that if the banned people are only banned because they’re associated with the Russian government (/employed by sanctioned companies), then I’m not going to get outraged over the kernel maintainers. I do not expect them to break the law just to die on this hill.

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        21 hours ago

        Honestly I wish that was a principle that the internet embraced more. We’re so trigger-happy to be outraged.

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          6 hours ago

          No the contributors should not be considered guilty until proven innocent just to give Linus et al the benefit of the doubt fuckface!

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            2 hours ago

            Oh geez, this the third reply by the same account… Again, I’m just saying that we don’t know whether the contributors were assumed guilty, or if they have actual ties to sanctioned companies.

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      Considering the US foreign policy and the impact it has on the world, regardless of whether the white house is R or D, i propose to ban all american devs… preemptively, ya know?

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        24 hours ago

        I don’t see what this has to do with my comment. I see no indication that all Russians are blanket-banned.

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          6 hours ago

          You are casually declaring all Russians should be assumed to be state agents until proven otherwise, and therefore the negative reaction to this obvious betrayal of principles, not even for convenience but for hatred, is unjustified.