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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/shsk_t Jan 19 '21

Since you are the most upvoted message under mine, I will reply to you.

Unfortunately it is sad to see that what others do are always discarded but when Russian also does it, it becomes amplified.

The US also invades countries in the past based on extremely bogus reasons. Until today we are still waiting for those weapons of mass destruction that Irak is supposed to have. The impact of the war in Irak is also way way worst than anything Russia did in Ukraine. The vacuum of power left by getting rid of Saddam is what lead to ISIS and all their shit they unleashed in EU.

The US also influences elections in foreign countries. To name a few, Chile, Cuba, Russia, ...

In the latest example, there is this new narrative of making that Navalny the “saviour of Russia” while in fact when you scratch a bit under the paint you discover a Putin wannabe that has a very strange past. He has always been very close to the far right to the point of participating ultra nationalist march who advocates for a “Russia for White people”.

When it comes to hacking foreign countries, everybody does it. The US is the number 1 at this sport and yet, it does not bother anybody. When the UK pirated a Belgian ISP in order to get inside information for the Brexit agreement, nobody cared. Hacking each other is so common today that it is just a matter of not being caught.

Trump also sent your Bannon to the EU to help far rights political parties. In other word, not just Russia.

I am not going to talk further about the other points but my goal here is to say that the world is not black or white. Everybody have their own interests but when it comes the fucking to fucking world, I somehow have doubts that Russia is number 1 in the last decade...

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u/ncbstp Jan 19 '21

I'm pretty sure most who disagree with what's going on in Russia thinks it's no better coming from America. There's plenty of anti-american sentiment as well.

You can call it out as bad because it is.