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by someotherperson 1531 days ago
Yes of course until the CEO popped up and unilaterally banned all of Russia[0]. Or when they banned a crypto related domain on a single tweet[1] then unbanned it when people said WTF [2].

Blocking actual exploitative malware is a legal obligation, not "censorship." If they had a TOS that says "do whatever you want" then sure, but in this case they're just violating their TOS too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

[1] https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489485337885921284

[2] https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489504958596714499

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You realize a lot of their staff is pretty much next door to that conflict geographically right?