Re: PHP Community to support Ukraine and help to stop Russian agression
| From: | Victor Bolshov | Date: | Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:33:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Community to support Ukraine and help to stop Russian agression | ||
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This is going to cause debate, I was sure about it. And if the community agrees at least to state "NO WAR", that is already something.
To provide more context on Putin's propaganda: he has been consistently putting more and more restrictions on nearly each and every independent media. I can only name one nation-wide radio-station - "Echo of Moscow", which has been deprived of their FM frequency as of today. There is 1 printed nation-wide newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" (editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov was awarded Nobel Prize this year). Other noticeable media mostly have been claimed "foreign agents" which heavily impacts their operation. To name one thing, they have to have a preamble to every publication with a long disclaimer "this material was published by a foreign agent (actually much longer a utterly bureaucratic crap)". Also, other media are only available on internet. The russian government controls internet through their puppet RosKomNadzor which can block any website in Russia without even the need for a court hearing or an court order. A big radio-station "Silver Rain" have closed all their news and political shows as of today, because it's no longer allowed to say a word of truth in Russia.
The world has seen these patterns before, and we all know what the consequences of good people remaining silent were.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 17:12, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote:
Den ons. 2. mar. 2022 kl. 14.51 skrev Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com <mailto:ocramius@gmail.com>>:Please GTFO: we don't need more of Putin's propaganda over here, as they're busy enough with butchering civilians over there.I heavily agree with this matter, the PHP project should remain neutral. Seeing this thread already makes me dread the idea of even considering such, even if it is done with the purest of intentions. Big -1 from me (and to all future proposals of similar political matter) -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net <mailto:kalle@php.net>