I’ve felt for some time that all internet traffic coming out of Russia should simply be blocked. We don’t need the Russians online anyway–all they’ve ever offered is piracy, viruses, botnets, and sex scams at best and attacks on other countries at worst, first Estonia, now Georgia. Who needs them? I’ve known several Russians online well, one of them is one of my best friends. They all say we should block the .ru until the Russians stop repressing their own users (most Russians now use Linux because of a Microsoft purge the government conducted after they were asked by MS to pay license fees), stop tracking their own citizens over it, launching cyber-attacks, etc.

Next time this happens, Wretchard–and it will–please just delete the pro-Russian posts as fast as they come in. They are an embarrassment to your site, just like porn popups or viagra spam would be. Most of them are only half-literate anyway. And if any babies get tossed out with the bathwater–well that’s just the Russian way, isn’t it?