@tusooa, the "directly complicit in war crimes" he's talking about are: making IPTV for ISPs, working on smart speakers like Amazon Echo, supporting Postmarket OS, doing university research, and the only connection you could possibly stretch is Baikal Electronics, which supplied computers to the Ministry of Interior. That's what I've been able to get with OSINT on maintainers that have been removed.

So it's made up. Not everyone on the list works for defense contractors, not all the companies people work for are sanctioned, and the sanctions aren't even specifically targeting war-related companies - their goal is to harm the economy in general.

Speaking as someone who's experienced this a lot (despite leaving Russia long ago - I recently realized I've lived more than half my adult life abroad), sanctions have become just a "polite explanation".

They can't openly say they hate you because you're Russian, so they use excuses like "because of sanctions" to, for example, not hire you.

And Russians who are in a better position, some who actually have a different citizenship, et cetera, cannot openly say that this kind of discrimination exists, otherwise, you know, they would not be in a better position anymore, lol.

@monsieuricon