There's no "neutral" here, just different flavors of political. Indifference to and support of a war of aggression are both legitimate political positions. But they are unavoidably political positions.
At this point, there are 5000+ dead Ukrainian civilians. If at this point you are more concerned about Russian citizens buying domains names from one vendor than you are about Ukrainian civilians getting blown up, that's in no way a neutral position. Similarly, you and Namecheap both have freedom of association. Their using it to enhance sanctions against Russia is exactly as political as you using it to boycott them for their choice.
Not being allowed to use a particular domain registrar is no punishment that I'm aware of. Particularly when said registrar's main offices are in the country being occupied.
Their policy on exceptions seems pretty reasonable.
Are there any exceptions?
Yes, we continue to provide services to:
all anti-war media, protest resources and any type of websites that are helping to end this war and regime;
Russian citizens who are not Russian residents and don't support this regime in any way;
independent journalism;
non-profit organizations.
But I guess people who support Russia's genocidal attack on Ukraine are still going to be salty.
Im Argentinian and lived here almost my whole life (30y) except a for 5 years in the Netherlands.
I Agree with your comment, it is embedded in the culture. But I disagree that people are the same at their own level, on the contrary. The problem is that this is not a new issue, we have the same goverment for the last 20 years and inflation and corruption is always getting worst. During the 90s we had 1USD == 1Peso. Nowadays 1USD == 320Pesos, and thats 24% more than two weeks ago, and usually inflation is at least 5% per month!.
I have no problem with high taxes if those reflect to the services goverment gives back (like the nordic countries). But if you pay 50% taxes on paycheck, then 20% on everything you buy, then 5% per month on inflation, and the result is an insecure unstable shithole is totally not fair.
I promote paying and reciving paymentes on cash or crypto, and do my very best to avoid taxes, credit cards, bank accounts, etc. Because the politicians are destroying my country and I dont want to finance that.
In my opinion, people are destroying the country, not just politicians (they're people too, after all) because they would do the same the politicians do if they have the chance, for the same reasons you have (if I don't do it, I'm the only idiot).
It is a "positive reinforcement" loop with negative consequences for everyone and there is no easy way out of it.
I agree that you cannot be the only one "doing it right". Of course...that wouldn't fix anything and you'd be screwed. But do you see the problem? Everyone has the exact same argument you have for doing it, this the cultural thing I was talking about.
As another example, my friend's father passed away a few years ago. As everyone over there he had all of his saved money hidden at home. His own brother stole all the money just hours before his dad passed away.
As I said on my initial comment, this happens everywhere on every country, but the proportions and the impunity on which this shit happens over there is just unbelievable. This is an example of what I mean with "everyone would do it at their level". It's just that politicians have more opportunities to do it.
We haven't had the same government for the last 20 years, and furthermore, we've had corruption and economic problems for far longer than the past two decades (where, in fact, we experienced a limited recovery).
USA did the same in the name of anti-terrorism, after (possibly) blowing up their own twin towers. If I were an USA citizen I rather give my information to a Chinese company than to a USA company, since at least the Chinese can't raid me if they don't like me.
Something similar happens nowadays in Spanish, where people use an X as a gender-neutral suffix. Ruining the experience for the visually impaired users that use screen readers. The irony of being 'inclusive' with the non-binary while being exclusive with the visually impaired
> in Spanish, where people use an X as a gender-neutral suffix
I very strongly doubt that this is "happening nowadays" since people speaking a language generally don't switch to using unpronouncable words in their daily affairs.
In Argentina thats not true. In fact you need $44.000 for a family to dont be considered poor. But if you earn more than $50.000 you start paying income taxes.
