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I think you are confusing them having something against Russia(gov) with Russians(people). They also clearly state that current employees will not be affected. Reading the motivation behind it and the possible dangers it would pose to their clients. I think it's very reasonable not to continue having sensitive data be available in Rus & Chi.

What would you do in this case?

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Gitlabs actions affect Russians(people) and not Russia(gov).

Their motivation, should they apply it to UK, US, Spain and France, should lead them to forbid having employees from those countries as well.

As a Swede, I would not like my gitlab sensitive data to be in the hands of US gov.

If you really believe national security agencies do not apply pressure to any tech employees just because they are X citizens of their X country - you need to mature a little bit more, perhaps read Snowdens book and look into what happened with Wikileaks.

Maybe Russian people should do something about their government then. Alas, it enjoys massive support.

Be careful.

This way you may end up justifying terrorist attacks against American citizens coming as a retribution for the foreign policy and military adventures of the democratically elected American government.

WAT?

What exactly did you fail to understand?

What made you think the Russians are not OK with their government?

I think, that it’s reasonable not to use servers located in certain countries and not to use (closed-source) software made by some bigger companies there. I myself would not use much of the software or services from the countries mentioned. Because I know who might well be getting access to my data and what those people’s approximate values are.

But not hiring devs that are maybe trying to get away from those places? As a dev and an immigrant myself I could not just stay silent about that.

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