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Noticed this a few times, where race is associated with some bad behaviour as if it made matters any worse. What does it matter if the developers were Turkish?

edit: are the downvotes because you believe race matters in this case, or some other problem with the comment?

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I didn’t downvote you, but “Team of Turkish developers” is just how original author of the extension refers to the new owner in his original announcement.

https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362

The author probably quoted it like that because it was the literal wording of the original, unedited, GitHub issue[1]:

> But there is good news. A team of Turkish developers is in the process of acquiring Nano Adblocker and Nano Defender [...]

[1]: https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362

...and I'm relatively certain they wanted to communicate that the new owners are based in Turkey, not that their developer team is strictly of Turkish ethnicity. They probably didn't check whether there might be Kurds or Circassians on the team.

My impression was that Turkish referred to nationality, not race in this case. The impression is that electronic law and order in Turkey are different than in California.

What does California have to do with all this?

CCPA exists.

I just read it as Turkish= out of the country + basically unreachable. Based on the due diligence (or lack thereof) they could actually be from anywhere. He has no idea.

Definitely wasn't being racist, just quoting the author of the extension.

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