[vimax]

Its childish. Striking out maliciously at random web developers surrounded by state propaganda is counter-productive. This just annoys them and feeds the narrative that they're under attack by the West who hates them.

I would imagine web developers over there, being more educated, technical, and exposed to the West, would be the ones less likely to support the war.

There's nothing subtle about wiping files, why not provide news and information that's being blocked? This could have been an information bridge that would be hard to censor. Hell, run a crypto miner on their machine and donate to Ukraine if you're trying help, that'll have more of an impact then wiping some poor dev's files.

[btreecat]

Your suggestions are also childish and just as flippant.

I don't know how to feel about this because it's not much different than sanctions in theory (very different in execution). Cause pain for people so they "force internal change."

It's not something to root for gleefully.

[foverzar]

> why not provide news and information that's being blocked

It's not really an issue to bypass blocks (how do you think Russians access rutracker). Especially not for a person who is capable of doing something with NPM packages.

[quinnjh]

100%

> why not provide news and information that's being blocked?

Radio free europe style. I like it