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Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
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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.
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.
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.
Yes, they did. How often is that happening? Proportion.
We're not talking about taking out former spies in foreign, sovereign nations you dolt. I used that as an example to show just how brazen and open they are about this stuff. Using such a dangerous method, on foreign soil, is basically unheard of.
If you actually want to talk about frequency, we should be looking at the defenestration cases...
This shit is happening so frequently that there are several wiki pages dedicated to listing them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_notable_Russians_in_2022
Scroll down to "see also" for a long list of related articles about the Russian government assassinating citizens and low-level bureaucrats.
Assuming you actually give a shit
EDIT: apparently Lemmy markdown doesn't like the link. For anyone who can't figure out why it's not working, or for some weird reason thinks I would make up a wiki page with a title that specific:
Suspicious deaths of notable Russians in 2022–2024
And, again, after checking out the main article, take a look at the "see also" section.
In any case, the defenestrations I’ve heard of have been within Russia, not outside it.
Not unheard of. US drone strikes on US citizens is a no-less dangerous a method.
It's almost as if the markdown on Lemmy changed the text of the link so it's not valid.
And you couldn't take the 3 second to fix it, and then actually learn something.
Well done.
You also seem confused about what we are even talking about. We are referring to software developers WITHIN RUSSIA. So the risk of defenestration is very real. Again, to repeat myself, I only brought up Russia using chemical warfare on foreign soil as an example to show how open and brazen they are.
I edited the original comment with a fixed link if you actually care