• hitwright@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I guess it’s difficult to otherwise explain the position you have? It’s not like people face criminal charges in Russia just for speaking against it. It’s easy to see how the state would want to introduce backdoors to most western systems.

    It’s extremely sad that a lot of good Russians get swooped in this. But even abroad their lives are in danger to fight the state.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      I think you’re making up a world in your head. Who are these “lots” of “good” Russians who are abroad and whose lives are in realistically danger of state assassination? Not that it has never happened, but you’re blowing things out of proportion. Probably Russia does it at a scale roughly similar to the US.

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        58 minutes ago

        I think you’re making up a world in your head.

        My friend, they poisoned people in the UK with a fucking nerve agent. They are so brazen and open about people being killed for not doing that the Kremlin tells them.

        They have purposely made a meme out of the “suspiciously fell from window” thing, because they want people to know exactly what happens and why.

        • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          56 minutes ago

          they poisoned people in the UK with a fucking nerve agent.

          Yes, they did. How often is that happening? Proportion.

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      5 hours ago

      I doubt if someone wants to introduce a backdoor, they would do that with a russian mailing address. People removed were open and transparent about their nationalities which means there is even less chance them being bad actors than some random guy pretending to be American.

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        5 hours ago

        Aren’t the removed commiters with direct access to the kernel? It’s not like it’s some rando that makes pull requests.