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OFAC(Office of Foreign Assets Control) sanctions are clear-cut and they can issue very large fines for non-compliance. These sanctions have been in place for a
by oxfordmale 3y ago
OFAC(Office of Foreign Assets Control) sanctions are clear-cut and they can issue very large fines for non-compliance. These sanctions have been in place for a while now. It sounds like someone flagged this to their legal department, who then advised to go nuclear, given the threat of large fines.
- jacquesm 3y agoYou can go to jail for this, it doesn't just stop at fines.
- sam_lowry_ 3y agoHetzner is a EU business which only recently started the US expansion. I am pretty sure Martin Hetzner lives in Germany. This makes the jail option very unlikely.
- jacquesm 3y agoAs I linked elsewhere in this thread: German business people have already gone to jail over breaking sanctions, it is mostly up to interpretation of the (German) authorities whether or not what Hetzner does qualifies as breaking the sanctions. If I were an exec in this position I'd play it very, very safe.
- byyll 3y agoOFAC seems like a US thing, correct me if I am wrong.
- oxfordmale 3y agoYes, you are right, but they also serve the US market. LOCATION. We host our cloud instances in our own data centers in Nuremberg and Falkenstein (Germany) and in Helsinki (Finland). In Ashburn, Virginia and Hillsboro, Oregon (USA), we also provide AMD-based cloud servers and cloud features.