You need to stop. Go spread your demagogy on reddit or other platforms. You were provided answered but you ignore what is inconvenient to hear and pushing your agenda. Stop.
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Nice try. But everyone sees through this BS.
But I do commend the arsenal of military grade rhetoric tools you deployed: moral substitution, goalpost moving, emotional manipulation, moral inversion, false equivalence, ad-hominem attacks under the guise of moral judgement, false consensus, virtue signaling, and selective ignoring; all the hallmarks of bad faith debate and pretty low quality propaganda. Did I miss anything?
Now please leave.
This thread was never about Storj. It started as a political monologue and has stayed that way — full of moral posturing, emotional manipulation, and off-topic propaganda.
If anything, accusations like “terrorists” and “murderers” being thrown at other node operators definitely cross a line. This isn’t what the forum’s for, and it directly violates forum rules.
I strongly suggest deleting this thread. Don’t let this forum turn into a platform for demagogues and propagandists disguised as an innocent node operators.
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I hope so. I really hope so. With the recent change of RS numbers, a sudden failure of 15% IP blocks will lead to data loss of 2–3 chunks per 1M unless these nodes are somehow deprioritized.
Well, this old post suggests they were modelling for a Russian “drop” off the internet. Specifically,
Although I don’t know how current that is (it’s been three years, after all).
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Yeah. This blog post (which, btw, I couldn’t find on the main page anymore) suggests the measures are only for the time necessary to one-time rebalance pieces.
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They’re ready if Russia drops off the Internet, initially doubled payouts to Ukraine SNOs, then switched to charity donations. Seems like the bases are covered…
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Doing business in my understanding is buying from or selling to Russian parties or from or to people in Russia.
I don’t see a problem to pull out from that. A business can decide not to engage in transactions with Russian parties or what appears to be a Russian party. If a node hides behind a Russian IP without actually being located in Russia or without being a Russian individual, then the SNO should get an IP for their correct location. It is a business decision not to sell to Russia, not to buy from Russia, and not to store data in at least what appears to be Russia. As hinted, it might become a legal issue when it is officially forbidden to send money or equivalents to Russia or to specific Russian individuals, and the business does so anyway or does not control (KYC) who they are sending the money to.
Essentially, it is the business’s decision to cut ties with everything that might even remotely suggest an affiliation with Russia or to circumvent the sanctions in place.
Is this unfair to the many good people in Russia? In some ways, yes. But it is a reaction to the government they have chosen for themselves and their governments actions.
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We need to be careful here. Russia is not a country where elections are free. It is not really correct to say it was the will of the people to have government that starts wars.
This is actually the source of contradiction that is the key to discussion in this thread. Western morality does not accept collective punishment for actions individuals did not take in willingly, but at the same time wants to acknowledge sovereign decisions of nations as groups of people. But this works only if all participants have the democratic structures necessary to have alignment between individuals and nations.
If you want to motivate sanctions, be correct in stating the reason—this is a point of leverage to show that you cannot cherry-pick only some of the Western values and disregard others.
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This is going off topic on the technical community forum. It is not a right place for this type of discussions.
I would close the thread, sorry.
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