Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.

• Helkriz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Really! Can’t believe them. Yeah fk microsoft.

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Russia is being sanctioned because of its aggressive war against Ukraine.

    Microsoft aren’t the bad guys for enforcing international sanctions.

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    • yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So a person that happens to be iving in a sanctioned country, makes them banned? Bullshit

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes. That’s how sanctions work.

        Part of the intention is to pressure citizens of the country for violating international law so they exert pressure on their governments to stop.

        Another part is to remove the use of tooling.

        Russia could stop the war and problem is solved. This isn’t Microsoft being the bad guy, this is Microsoft following international law.

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I assume most Russian GitHub users use a VPN to avoid it. He has chosen not to in order to make a point.

        The real worry is what happens when the US declares sanctions on random allies in their stupid “trade war”…

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      • Litebit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        yes, that is the purpose of sanction. to target the lowest rung of society for supporting and promoting the invasion of Ukraine.

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      • philpo@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes,you understand how sanctions work.

        A person living in a sanctioned country can also no longer buy certain things, travel to certain countries or use certain services. You couldn’t buy a Boeing Plane during WW2 in Germany as well…

        And considering that Russia is waging a fucking genocidal war and a hybrid war in Europe and a majority (according to relatively independent statistics) of the population stil supports that shit and has done so for a long time (when they still could have changed course) it’s god damn right these sanctions exist.

        BTW: Cuba is being sanctioned by the US for simply nationalising US held companies (Fidel Castro wasn’t that much of a communist in the beginning) since 1960 and basically none gave or gives a rats ass.

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      • lumony@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is bullshit, you’re right.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sanctions are bullshit economic violence. This is a great example.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Probably better this economic violence than I dunno, the physical violence Russia has exerted on the Ukrainian populace?

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        K

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    • Helkriz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So what about the organic map users. They should ban the contributor if they need to ban it soo bad.

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      • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        that’s practically impossible. TOR is alive and well, as if any rando in any country sanctioned by the u.s. cares.

        of course they could Great China Firewall the shit out of everything and still fail.

        but we’re on the downward spiral, so be gleeful!

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  • Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Microsoft literally had no choice.

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    • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      when you’re a corporation with billions of dollars and US politicians cost millions on the high end, you can choose to do whatever you want.

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      • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Microsoft continues to work with Russians despite sanctions due to ongoing war in Ukraine” is probably not a headline they want to see.

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      • kaidezee@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is still an unnecessary risk for them.

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    • lumony@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Government and major corporations are the exact same entity in the US.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly. The real issue is the sanctions against Russia. Why those sanctions involve FOSS projects, I’ll never understand.

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