arclightarclight@oldbytes.space
Oct 12, 2026, 8:59 PM@blogdiva Datacenters are legitimate military targets. That's quite literally why DARPA made the internet.
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John Ripleyjripley@mastodon.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:09 PM@arclight @blogdiva Civilian infrastructure is definitionally *not* a legitimate military target (as in war crimes). That is, unless they are military-only, or more than just incidentally mixed-use, which in the case of anything in Russia, is plausible.
(This is what happens in a fascist or otherwise failed state—nothing civilian exists any more without being entangled with the state)
Oct 12, 2026, 10:23 PM@jripley @arclight @blogdiva
Russian data centres are absolutely military targets.
We have decades of available documentation detailing how they are conducting information warfare against their enemies.
It's military doctrine in Russia. Military personnel utilise the equipment to perform social media commentary in support of military action.
The danger of co-opting civilian infrastructure during wartime has always been apparent ever since the days of levies of antiquity and the merchant marine of the world wars.