Are there ways to be hostile to Putin's regime without being hostile to the ordinary Russians? __________________________________________________________________ From: libreplanet-discuss on behalf of Richard Stallman Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2022 9:15:37 PM To: Félicien Pillot Cc: valentino.giudice96@gmail.com ; kreyren@rixotstudio.cz ; libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org Subject: Re: Should distros take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software? [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > So what we could ask, is that Savannah, Github or Sourceforge, and > Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu, stop to distribute free software in Russia. We could make Savannah deny access from Russian domain address, but why do that? It would not impede anything the Russian government wants to to with our softwsre. It would not stop Russians from downloading our software, as they could use mirror sites. It _would_ stop people in Russia from committing changes in our repositories, unless they use Tor or a VPN. That isn't hard to do, unless Putin has blocked it. The main thing that would do is tell Russians, "You are Russian, so you are scum." Is it useful to treat Russians that way? Would it help save Ukraine or defeat Putin? I don't think so. That message is not a valid or useful message to give to Russians. -- Dr Richard Stallman ([1]https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project ([2]https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation ([3]https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer ([4]https://internethalloffame.org) _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org [5]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss References 1. https://stallman.org/ 2. https://gnu.org/ 3. https://fsf.org/ 4. https://internethalloffame.org/ 5. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss