On the subject of “open source ideals” that you’ve mentioned in your post… tangentially related, I admit, but I’ve often noticed Russian use of Western liberal principles against the West itself, and then when the limit is reached and the West is forced to react - gleefully pointing out the West’s alleged hypocrisy. “Ahh, see - they muzzled our state sanctioned and financed unconstrained hate propaganda - so much for their famed freedom of speech!”.

Were the West to fail to react - that too would then be just as gleefully celebrated as how dumb, or naive, or lazy, or weak the West is.

Nothing is without limits and rational people understand that for us all to enjoy some of these ideals - it is necessary for all participants to make a good faith effort to uphold the founding principles.

I think Russia will suffer the consequences for decades. After the hostilities end - the litigation for war crimes, compensation for victims, reparations etc will begin. All under the climate of relentless sanctions and general pivot away from economic cooperation with Russia.

Expecting that meanwhile all this is happening - everything will remain the same in respect to services rendered by Github seems to be a bit tone deaf.

TLDR: to see this HN topic in context, one needs to read the news covering events in Ukraine. It’s not arbitrary, but an unsurprising consequence.