Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know

Re:Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know by gpm on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:21PM (#27450553)

They might also be aiming to preserve their ability to send mail to russian mail servers, and to serve existing russian users, and to let new russian users sign up by signing up with a IP address outside of russia.

I.e. a choice between "russia is ineffectively blocked by us" vs "russia is effectively blocked by the russian government".

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Re:Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know by teknopaul on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:59PM (#27451699)

yeah remember the block is because they don't have enough Russian customers to make complying with local data laws worth the cost/effort. They were not banned the were asked to obey the law and they weighed up pros and cons. Normal. Plenty of US sites refuse to let eu citizens view thier content because they don't want to comply with GDPR (which I consider a reasonable set of laws that protect me) Personally I use Yandex for email so the NSA can't get their hands on it and I don't have to continually fight changes in terms and conditions that want to sync my advertising id with Google or Facebook. Fastmail obeying local laws is the correct thing to do. There is no malice in the law as it is written, its just data protection _from_ the US government.

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Re:Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know by baybal2 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:32PM (#27454150)

> There is no malice in the law as it is written

Please read what you have wrote now.

Law say go spy after A and B, ESPIONAGE

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Re:Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know by ZoomZoomZoom on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:40PM (#27452165)

> There is no malice in the law as it is written, its just data protection _from_ the US government.

That is absolutely not the reason for this regulation existing.

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