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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.
by afarrell 6y ago
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.
- dmos62 6y agoCensorship 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.
- freeone3000 6y agoThe 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.
- dmos62 6y agoThe 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.