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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by dmos62 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:47AM (#23059307)
Why is that? Is private business obligated to follow host country's foreign policy? My instinct is to hold the business responsible for these decisions.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by afarrell on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:16AM (#23059469)
Yes, a private business is obligated to follow the laws of any country where they hold assets that can be seized by the police of that country.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by dmos62 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @04:32PM (#23061642)
Censorship is a law in US now? Or, are you saying that it's law to follow its foreign policy? In that case you sure have a round-about way of saying that.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by freeone3000 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @05:19PM (#23061933)
The Trading with the Enemy Act empowers the Office of Foreign Asset Control to come down very hard (million-dollar fines and years of jail time) on anyone dealing with a sanctioned nation (N.Korea, Iran, Cuba) or anyone on the list of Specially Designated Persons and Nationals. This is absolutely the law, yes.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by dmos62 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @07:40PM (#23062822)
The accounts were closed because they were business accounts from sanctioned countries? I didn't realise that. I had misunderstood that Github was enforcing the said countries' censorship.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by eythian on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:56AM (#23059366)
Sometimes, yes. If the host's country's government applies sanctions to your country, they may have to stop allowing you to use their services.
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