I haven't had a single person in my life or social media inform me of a single thing I have missed out on since blocking Russia and several other hostile nations with my firewall. I've been doing this for about 15 years. No regrets so far.

I understand your philosophy but it doesn't match my reality.

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2ndorderthought 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Warty. I doubt you personally are. But unfortunately your country has engaged in a lot of troublesome activities. We can connect through a 3rd party like we are now that's fine with me. I don't hate all Russians or anything like that.

I see no reason to directly connect to any Russian Internet infrastructure though.

	▲	wartywhoa23 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, thanks for that at least..

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wartywhoa23 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Am I a hostile one for you, being a Russian who has to bypass both domestic blocks of the outbound traffic and (much more rare) "hostile nation" geoip blocks on the other side via VPNs just to read that damn article, mind you, not to hack anyone?

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Modified3019 8 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s for sure not fair for you personally. However it’s also not fair the rest of us have do deal with Russia’s hacking and propaganda organizations that are either directly state run or willfully tolerated. IP blocks don’t fix everything, but they do (or did at least) counter a good portion of the bots for no effort.

You live in a country that is awful to itself and everyone around it, but that’s not something we can fix.

	▲	wartywhoa23 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A sad, utterly sad world to live in. Thanks for understanding the few of us who are not hackers, propagandists, or their victims..