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>For such a thing they probably have to get approval from the state department Google doesn't have to get approval from the state department to discontinue ser

• hedora 5y ago
  True, but they have strong ties to the state department, and I imagine those conversations are happening. The right strategy might be non-obvious from the outside.
• graderjs 5y ago
  No I mean don't think they would, in a regular case...But for such a thing, where say it affects a target/person of interest/VIP who is under surveillance/protection, or, say in this case, where it's an action in and that directly affects a war-zone, I imagine there be such a requirement... I mean, if anything, you can imagine the situation where say CIA was doing some operation in a country, and at the same time there was some sort of mass disinformation campaign by some "enemy" actor, and Google decided to discontinue services, but that interfered with the CIA's operation somehow, maybe by cutting CIA off from intelligence and capability against the actor. So you imagine that it would be desirable there would be some co-ordination of things, to avoid stepping on toes. I mean, right? That's reasonable, isn't it?