> Regarding taking actions past regulatory compliance, I do not think it would be appropriate to punish these people by """imposing sanctions""" (blocking off russian IPs from our mirrors).

This is my current thinking, as gov can evade geo restrictions easily enough. Ours are temporarily closed pending a reply back from a lawyer but I expect them to re-open. Big question is the banks and businesses being called by name. If they come back and say we have to cut service (which happens at our router level, rather than the mirror level) I'm going to see if we can ACL to just the ASNs of the named businesses rather than general region.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:49 PM ave via arch-mirrors <arch-mirrors@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

Without going into too much politics, to my understanding a significant chunk of the Russian populace does not support the recent actions of the government.

Regarding taking actions past regulatory compliance, I do not think it would be appropriate to punish these people by """imposing sanctions""" (blocking off russian IPs from our mirrors).

arch.mirrors.lavatech.top will remain available to russian IPs for the foreseeable future, unless we're required to by regulations.

On 2/25/22 06:42, Tails Hon1nbo via arch-mirrors wrote:

Are any mirrors imposing sanctions with Russia?

It's a dilemma; on the one hand there's regulatory potential for some hosting providers, and even on the other without regulatory compliance there's ethical considerations for uninvolved 3rd parties within borders such as medical and educational as well as government usage.

Have any mirrors given this any thought? Any precedents taken?

~H

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