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It is possible that they saw activity that made them slam a panic button or they were explicitly told by the US government to stop traffic; they've been working
by cco 8y ago
It is possible that they saw activity that made them slam a panic button or they were explicitly told by the US government to stop traffic; they've been working on this problem for a long time and this response strikes me as sudden.
- mannykannot 8y agoThe activity that they saw, I suspect, was the arrest of Meng Wanzhou. The C-suite wants to be absolutely sure it could never happen to them. The cheapest solution is to mine their extensive data on customers to exclude any hint of a possibly-infringing connection. Any more nuanced response that involves humans making judgements about individual cases would be orders of magnitudes more expensive.
- belltaco 8y agoThis isnt about stopping traffic to /from Iran, it's about banning people who ever logged in from there even once.