[Ferret7446]

Linus explicitly calls out in his email:

> And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

[akimbostrawman]

directly followed by a painfully ironic and arrogant:

>If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

Seems like he himself isn't up to date or he would have done this 2 to 9 years ago.