[hombre_fatal]

They are saying someone might post information on an .ru link that they don't want people to see. Isn't that basic censorship?

That said, this is just par for the course of Reddit. Just like how every subreddit has arbitrary rules that discourage viewpoints the moderators don't want people to see whether that's Bitcoin Cash on r/bitcoin or getting scolded by a mod on r/vancouver when I said something bad about the DTES.

Banning .ru is about as effective towards the imagined cause as subreddits putting up yellow and blue banners.

[everybodyknows]

So now, those who attempt to analyze Putin's state of mind by close reading of his public pronouncements -- in full, from kremlin.ru -- need a different forum. We are collectively deciding by default that understanding the enemy is unnecessary, at least not necessary for us ordinary citizens. Necessary only for some elite, membership criteria for which proceed to tighten.

This is a betrayal of one of the core values that make a liberal, rules-based order worth fighting for.

[xdennis]

Yes. We need to limit access to Russian influence. It's a war.