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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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