this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
370 points (97.2% liked)

World News

39023 readers
2334 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka "planeta" (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying that just because Russia is doing a genocide, doing a genocide to Russia would be justified? Ever heard the saying “an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind”?

They can put that phrase on Ukrainian tombstones. /s

A data hack/destruction is not genocide.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago

I'm not talking about this case and this data. I'm talking about the take of people above on how things should be handled.

Derpgon said "russia can be fucked" regardless of whether it's a military or civilian target.

Maness300 pointed out that collective punishment can easily turn into discrimination. That is, there's a big difference between "XYZ is bad, because it's aiding Russian military" and "XYZ is bad, because it's Russian"

Phoenixz points out that Russia is committing genocide, as if it's a counter argument to the previous statement, somehow.

I point out that just because Russia is committing genocide, it doesn't make it right to slip into "XYZ is bad, because it's Russian" and use that as justification to do anything you want to the country and its people.

Maness300 is right: targeting entities of any country for the action of said country, regardless of whether the entities in question are responsible, or even capable of influencing the actions, is not a good idea. It will lead to more problems.

I, for example, don't support the US selling weapons to Israel. Should go and set the closest 7-eleven on fire? It's an American company, so, clearly, it's a valid target, right?