You are capable of making the distinction between IBM selling devices directly to the Nazi government knowing what it might do with them, and Namecheap selling hosting services to average Russians who might be using said hosting to say, run a small business for their basic livelihood, yes?
Russia's government fires missiles at Ukraine, where Namecheap employees live, Some dude in Samara who hosts his family's restaurant page through Namecheap doesn't fire those missiles.
Spare the bullshit. Things like this rarely do much moral good, and speak poorly of the mentality of those who support them. The comparison to the kind of idiot righteousness that caused people to consider all Germans or all Japanese enemies to be derided because of specific things done by a government is in the same vein as this.
> You are capable of making the distinction between IBM selling devices directly to the Nazi government knowing what it might do with them, and Namecheap selling hosting services to average Russians who might be using said hosting to say, run a small business for their basic livelihood, yes?
They are different sides of the same thing. Access to foreign goods and services is a crucial part of maintaining public support for the war. Much like Nazis, Russians too put a lot of effort into maintaining normalcy, that is, keeping up the appearance as if nothing was wrong, that the population should not question what is going on, that they should turn off their brains and focus on running their little lives and doing what they are told to do.
> Russia's government fires missiles at Ukraine, where Namecheap employees live, Some dude in Samara who hosts his family's restaurant page through Namecheap doesn't fire those missiles.
It is exactly the opposite: the men in Kremlin don't fire any missiles at Ukraine. Putin has not raped, tortured or murdered a single person in Ukraine, much like Hitler didn't personally kill a single Jew. Putin doesn't manufacture missiles, doesn't program their targets, doesn't fly bombers or man artillery guns. He is not one of the hundreds of thousands that went to Ukraine for bucks, then returned and renovated a house or opened a restaurant with the money earned killing Ukrainians. Putin would not have any influence on the world without millions of willing executioners who choose to follow him and put his ideas into action, or at least turn a blind eye to it.
You are retelling the same old myth of "Germans as innocent bystanders" that we know from the WWII: pretending that everything was the fault of only one man, and the rest were just following the orders and trying to get by in challenging times.
The actual truth is far more darker, and raises the difficult question: how do you deal with a whole country full of people filled with bloodlust? In Germany's case, it took the total destruction of the country, the hanging of its leaders, systemic banishment of their supporters from public life, and 50 years of Allied oversight to put Germany back on track of being a normal country.
Russia's government fires missiles at Ukraine, where Namecheap employees live, Some dude in Samara who hosts his family's restaurant page through Namecheap doesn't fire those missiles.
Spare the bullshit. Things like this rarely do much moral good, and speak poorly of the mentality of those who support them. The comparison to the kind of idiot righteousness that caused people to consider all Germans or all Japanese enemies to be derided because of specific things done by a government is in the same vein as this.