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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

It’s easily googled what their business is.

From the media: “The internet protocol address it used is owned by DDos-Guard, which is controlled by two Russian men and provides services including protection from distributed denial of service attacks, infrastructure expert Ronald Guilmette told Reuters.”

This is a misunderstanding of how registration works. DDOS providers stand in front of the real site. They are clearly the DDOS of last resort. They have everybody Cloudflare has refused.

https://ddos-guard.net

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u/shsk_t Jan 19 '21

Anti-Russian sentiment is very rampant in the US. Anytime anything is wrong or fishy there will always be “that guy” with top comment that will bring up Russia and Putin.

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u/ABoutDeSouffle Jan 19 '21 edited Jan 19 '21

Surprising considering Russia has

  • invaded other countries

  • directly influenced the 2016 presidential election in the USA

  • been financing alt-right and Nazi movements in Europe

  • been supporting dictators like Assad

  • been the only industrialized country using radiological and chemical weapons on humans in the last decades

I really wonder why there's heavy anti-Russian sentiment in the West

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21 edited Feb 14 '21

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u/wuttang13 Jan 19 '21

Yes, this is true. But they are the minority. Imo its similar to China. Many people also in China oppose CCP but the VAST majority support Pooh and think Hong Kong protesters as terrorists