On: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

[muzani]

As in they will not legally be allowed to accept payments from Russia. There will probably be usage of VPNs and USD/BTC, but that will also probably not be legal too. And even if it were legal, a lot of people and companies will just not do it. The world plans to make things very difficult for Russia should the war continue.

Also I just noticed elsewhere on HN that Namecheap has officially sanctioned Russia themselves.

[EnOstac6 → muzani]

And this Namecheap sanctions just hit independent students journal DOXA.

Four of its journalists are being trialed right now because of January 2021 protests. They are accused for sharing a motivational video addressed to students not to stay silent.

Yesterday russian censorship started to block DOXA site, because they published anti-war debate manual. They switched their domain then got sanctioned by Namecheap.

It is very hard to host something inside country if you are targeted by censoring.

[ithkuil → EnOstac6]

Namespace CEO sad that they make exceptions and you just have to contact them.

[willis936 → EnOstac6]

While much more limited than a website, I think torrent is a good solution to censorship-resistant file sharing.

Getting an index of torrents around is the trick.

[BaconPackets → muzani]

That's interesting. I'm not sure where the technicality resides. If that situation is the case, I assume that it would be quite catastrophic for anyone using non-Russian services for IT.

[jacquesm → BaconPackets]

That is correct. Hence this Tell HN, unfortunately it got flagged.

[Scoundreller → jacquesm]

Still on front page, but grayed

[mkr-hn → Scoundreller]

Gray just means you opened it since it points to the comments. It's HN's visited link style. It looks like enough people vouched or a mod intervened.

[jacquesm → mkr-hn]

The latter.

[cutemonster → jacquesm]

Why did it get flagged?

[jacquesm → cutemonster]

No idea, flags don't require a reason.

[azinman2 → BaconPackets]

Cutting off SWIFT I believe is a primary way of making it impossible to pay...

[astrange → azinman2]

SWIFT is a messaging network and could be replaced by email.

They’ve been banned from the US/UK central banks and can’t settle transactions in those currencies at all. Maybe more by now.