Thanks for your reply! I hope this is the real reason of blocking. If that's not the case, that's at least not effective. Less effective than idk placing a banner in the header or whatever.
I mean I eventually read the article. Sorry for that. But we're at "Hacker News", sporting hackers ethics, aren't we?
Opposing the invasion of Ukraine and the biggest existential threat Europe's faced in a couple generations seems pretty ethical to me.
We should be jamming American media down Russias throats like we did during the Cold War.
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were one of the very first things that the Trump presidency stopped.
By preventing some computer history enthusiast in Russia from reading an article on a processor from 1985? Really?
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>It's not the author's responsibility to shield the Russian population from the consequences of war.
"It's not the author's responsibility to shield the Russian population from himself blocking access to Russians"?
A quick look at your comment history reveals a relatively new account primarily used for shouting down comments that aren't explicitly pro-Russia.
With that in mind I'd say it's safe to assume two things:
1.) You're not commenting in good faith
2.) The author's presumed actions were quite effective in spite of your disbelief.
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