The correct decision, and the same should have applied to SWIFT. It's one thing for countries to ban their citizens, banks, etc from accessing Russia and vice

The correct decision, and the same should have applied to SWIFT. It's one thing for countries to ban their citizens, banks, etc from accessing Russia and vice versa, and putting infrastructure in place to enforce that. It's something else to cut Russia off from global communication networks. Now, more than ever, we need to communicate. If you (ab)use global networks (irrespective of where they are domiciled) as political tools, the victims of that will strive to create their own networks so that they have freedom, and the value of the existing network is diminished.