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Re:Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know by duxup on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:07AM (#27448766)
I can understand Fastmail wanting to be in compliance with the law... or just not do business there.

Making a whole effort of operating in Russia, being blocked, and trying to work around that seems like a potentially endless effort. Meanwhile you're offering a service to your customers that would be pretty spotty considering all the hassle going on.

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Re:Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know by patrakov on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:49PM (#27450151)
You may also want to watch my FOSDEM 2020 talk, "Software distribution: new points of failure (In a censored world)". It is about cases when governments block legitimate services due to nothing bad done by the said services, only because of their bad neighbors.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/sdnpof/

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Re:Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know by patrakov on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:47PM (#27450115)
It is not about compliance (existing accounts are kept, and decision to prevent signups is made purely on the basis of the IP address and not e.g. the country that issued the credit card). It is about avoiding the promised blocking of outgoing mail from Western users of FastMail to Russian users of any other mail provider.
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Re:Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know by duxup on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:16PM (#27450513)
Well compliance and "avoiding the promised blocking" are same at this point.
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Re:Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know by JAlexoid on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:23PM (#27463146)
It's a business decision and I doubt that they made it lightly.
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