It’s easy to say such things when you was lucky to born in a country that respects your right to protest and other civilian rights. But would you go to a protest if that guaranteed to get you in jail for half a month at best? Would you speak up publicly for yourself if that meant you get jailed for years? Especially if you have wife and kids? I don’t think so.
And if you say yes, I would think it’s a lie, or that you’re stupid.
No, we don’t have a chance to protest. It’s simply not how it works here. People in Europe have a chance to protest, people in USA have a chance to protest, but not the people in Russia. We don’t. When you protest in Russia you just get jailed the very same day and that’s it.
It truly scares me how an entire nation of developers just became cut off of the IT community as well as the rest of the world just because they happen to born at the same place as one crazy dictator.
I think there were a link to this post posted in one of the community channels, and some people that didn’t have an account just decided to create one to show their support