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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 199 points 6 hours ago (14 children)

"Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.

It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything.

And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too."

fuck yes. fuck russia. fuck russians.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 5 hours ago

I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too."

Man, it's like you spend centuries brutalizing all your neighbors, if not outright conquering them and enforcing holocausts, and this is the thanks you get!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (22 children)

So, basically it's enough to say "Fuck Russia, Fuck Russians" here and it gains you massive support.

Seriously?

First, how does this fuck Russia the state?

Second, what everyday Russians have to do with it? What justifies sneaking in hate messages to a diverse ethnic group with no single ideology?

Saying "Fuck Russians" is about the same as "Fuck Jews" because Israel has done bad things. This is not okay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Well, if your state is breaching international law, deporting children, using artillery to reduce cities to ashes, sending hundreds of thousands of its own citizens to their death and allying itself with fucking north korea to "denazify" a country while swinging its nuclear dick around...

then maybe it's time to leave the country or accept that people with a russian mail address are persona non grata in the rest of the world. It's not their first war of aggression, and enough is enough.

fuck russia. fuck russians.

and fuck hospital- and refugee camp bombing zionists btw. (not all jews are zionists!)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Propaganda goes both ways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes. Fuck Russia and fuck Russians. Slava Ukraini!

[–] babybus -5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It's just people can't do anything to stop Russia or at least help Ukraine. Although the latter is possible, but it'd require some effort. Writing and upvoting "fuck Russia" on social media is easy and that makes them feel better.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You feel good typing all that schlock out?

[–] babybus 1 points 1 hour ago

You have no arguments and you are angry because of that. No, I don't feel anything in particular about it. Maybe you do, you wrote an aggressive comment, you "defended" yourself, you must be very proud!

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

To directly quote Linus:

Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.

It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything.

And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Linus really pouring on that "white death" energy.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 6 hours ago

Absolutely based as fuck as usual.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Good cleanup on the security vulnerabilities!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, that's the main thing I was thinking.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I thought it said expulsion of Russian Mountaineers so that was pretty confusing

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 hour ago

Absolutely idiotic take that endangers not only Linux but fractures the concept of open source itself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Do China next

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 hours ago

And Israel

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No changes until China decides to invade Taiwan and the sanctions that Russia currently has begin.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 hours ago (6 children)

Yeah, China are being "generic assholes" right now, but not crossing the lines into "serious villain shit" yet, at least for people who aren't in China.

But if they touch Taiwan, oh hell yeah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean there are chinese spies in europe, which suppress, bully and sometimes even kill chinese journalists who have fleed (?) to europe. And thats not even a conspiracy theory, there were investigative journalists who have uncovered this in several countries. So I'd say that china is reeealy close to that villain line

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, I think thats still really brushing the line.

This is a carrot and stick thing, by making Russia an extreme example we can steer them back from the edge.

But we do need to have other sanctions, they're just being dickholes.

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