[veidr]

Hmm, I'm American, so I can tell you Puerto Rico absolutely is part of the United States.

My understanding is that Chechnya is part of Russia in a similar way, but I'm not an expert there, so maybe I'm wrong. If so, then I should have said "murder of gays in the Russian Federation" or "in Chechnya".

But, I mean, I could have instead said "state-sponsored assassinations of journalists and political opponents in Russia".

The specific atrocities involved are kind of incidental to my point that if you decide to operate a DRM-enforced single-source app store platform, you are going to have to get into bed with authoritarian governments if you want to sell your platform in the countries they control.

(That said, I will google the relationship between the Russian Federation, Russia, and Chechnya a bit more, so that I can state things more precisely in the future.)

[sli]

> Hmm, I'm American, so I can tell you Puerto Rico absolutely is part of the United States.

You misunderstand. They're saying that referring to the entire US (or Russia) when you really only mean Puerto Rico (or Chechnya) is somewhat disingenuous, and clouds what is actually being said.