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If their customers are US persons it's not that simple, because national origin is a protected status. Some US citizens with Russian heritage could have Russia
by hozmoz 5y ago
If their customers are US persons it's not that simple, because national origin is a protected status.
Some US citizens with Russian heritage could have Russian addresses listed like 10 years ago.
Would be funny to see this case in court.
- kube-system 5y agoIt doesn't work that way. Discrimination doesn't follow the transitive property. To discriminate illegally you have to discriminate for an illegal reason. Discriminating for a legal reason while that person also belongs to a protected class is not illegal.
- kieloo 5y agoWhat’s the legal reason here though? That’s a genuine question, I don’t know much about US law.
- kube-system 5y agoGiven the context of this thread and the current war, I think it's pretty clear Namecheap is turning away customers in Russia's jurisdiction because they don't want to support the Russian regime through taxes. The fact that the people who live under that regime are mostly Russians is tangential. It's just like how Walmart.com doesn't ship to China. That's legal. And if I'm in the US, and I put a Chinese address on my Walmart.com account, and they don't ship me a package, that's not discrimination, that's just a mistake. Now, if Namecheap starts intentionally going after people of Russian origin outside of Russia, that's a different story, but it doesn't look like that's what's happening here.