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Re: Will dropbox be blocked in Russia?
On Feb 24, 2022, at 4:00 am, Russia started a war with Ukraine to take over a sovereign European country. On 28 Feb: 352 civilians died (16 kids) and 2040 are injured (45 kids). Ukraine needs military assistance, as its armed forces are much smaller than those of the Russian Federation. Unfortunately, the EU countries and NATO are afraid to help armed participation in the war, fearing Putin's threat to launch nuclear weapons. The international community, including the EU countries and the United States, is working to strengthen sanctions against Russia.
We ask Dropbox to join the sanctions against the global aggressor and restrict access for all users from Russia. Since this service is popular with Russians and is used to store and transfer information related to the unleashed world war and propaganda content files, as well as individuals and companies from Russia involved in the outbreak of war or participating in it.
Since the start of the war, all Russian banks are under sanctions, therefore, it is also necessary to delete all accounts that are paid with cards of Russian banks.
These measures may limit the activities of peaceful professionals from Russia. But now, when their colleagues and friends from Ukraine are being killed by the Russian military, we ask you to support global sanctions against Russian aggression that began in Ukraine.
War is aggression, destruction, and selfishness!
War is fear, poverty, and despair!
This won't be a sanction against Russian aggression. This is a boycott about only people who can change something.
This will restrict human rights organizations in Russia help people both in Russia and in Ukraine.
I am Russian and I am not opposing economic sanctions, even though my family has nothing to eat.
But boycotting fighters with the regime by limiting instruments, and then ask why Russians don't do anything?
Good day - I am still alive. Today I woke up at 6 AM because of loud boom. The 14 floor building was targeted with russian bomb or rocket while people were sleeping there, which is 10 mins walk from my house.
The advice: every time you hear the story about "good russians" - read the history of Ukraine book. Since the Golden Horde founded this s**t it destroys everything around them.
Of course you still have a chance to make the period of reparations and contributions shorter. The nation of slaves could make only famine revolutions (or as we call "hamburger revolution"). So, yes every business which does not want to go together with russian warship should stop any operation there. And Yes, the "special financial operation" (we do not call it sanctions) should be continued and become harder to stop destroying of Ukrainian cities and killing of Ukrainian people.
Still waiting the Dropbox to stop any work at the territory of aggressor.
Sorry to break the news to you, but the current government of Ukraine is the aggressor and started all of this. Why should Russia be banned and lose access to their data security because of instability that has been going for literally hundreds of years.
I'm Ukrainian Jew with Russian family. The same people the West is now supporting killed my family 100 years ago, and again in 2014. War is terrible, but you can't just make a one sided case for things. There wouldn't be a war if the USA had leadership. This is 100% on the US. Should we ban people here in the US too?
Let's all just get along and leave politics for the voting booth. Putin was fairly elected but was gradually dropping off in support until this happened. Sanctions just will make Russian compete.
Finally, a couple of the most influential engineers at Dropbox were Ukrainian Jews too. They (hopefully) know that 'Slava Ucraini' is hate speech and what they say when Jews and other minorities are murdered by the cossacks. Unless you know who Petliura, Bandera, Khelministky, and how they tie into current day nationalist beliefs, then you have no business making a political argument about this.
War crimes? Yea, they are coming from both sides. Let's stop this, but trying to cancel people is just going to make Dropbox a target for an attack. Dropbox should play zero role in this. If they are ordered to sanction Russia from internal sanctions, they should divest, sell off, and fight tooth and nail to protect people's data. This is what is important for this forum, not politics.
Who are "we"? Have you personally looked into the materials of the russians in the dropbox?
