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		stoperaticless 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high ... US laws is not “other countries” laws. Linus lives in US. … and Finland is on the same side as US anyway, might have similar views. Btw. Did Linux ban all Russian speaking people or Russian citizen or people with Russian IP addresses?

dekhn 10 months ago [–]

The intent was to remove people of any nationality who work for Russian companies from being kernel maintainers. The way they rolled that out didn't match their intent, though.

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