A DoS attack is a DoS attack even if someone is pretending to be a “Researcher.”
People in Iran, Russia, etc get annoyed with sanctions but that’s kind of the point. If your government isn’t responding appropriately, yes you’ll get shafted it’s what you do after that which solves the problem.
Me, I prefer to relate to people as individuals rather than, as you are advocating, interchangeable representatives of their area of residence. If what you want is World War III, this is how you get it.
In particular, universal access to knowledge is a fundamental principle of liberalism.
I’d personally love for someone to hand me a billion dollars no strings attached.
That’s got nothing to do with solving the issues created by these people, but if you’re going to toss out meaningless non sequitur’s then I figure I might as well join in on the fun.
