Yah that's where I stand on it. The message isn't harmful or hateful, it dares only make a political statement.

It's still selective degradation of functionality, as presumably people who download a snowglobe animation program don't do it to see any sort of statement apart from normative depictions of wintery things. The problem would be the same if it showed Russian flags only to users with Ukrainian locale, or ads for Mountain Dew only when the user's locale is set to French, or even just something as impossible to interpret as offensive on its own as adding lots of little cactus men whenever the locale is Dutch.

	▲	jszymborski an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		right, which means the software is less useful and as such you might not want to use it. Plenty of software like that listed on repositories, which I think is fine.
	▲	stonogo an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> presumably So it's "selective degradation of functionality" based entirely on your assumptions regarding the motivations of the users? How is this a useful description?

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Svoka 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But also it is showing how russians think that Ukrainians existing is somehow discriminatory against them.