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How does legally selling a dish to a legal customer in the middle east imply liability?
by s1artibartfast 2y ago
How does legally selling a dish to a legal customer in the middle east imply liability?
- rolph 2y agoif you know, or ought to reasonably know what it will be used for, you are contributing to armament of a foreign power, and international traffic in arms.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoReasonable does a lot of heavy lifting there. For most things, I dont think it is reasonable to be able to predict, track, and detect 2nd and 3rd order transfers. Have you ever sold a used car? That could be in Russia right now for all you know.
- CamperBob2 2y agoThat's just how it works, per Export Administration Regulation rules (see https://www.bis.gov/regulations https://www.bis.gov/regulations ). You send something out of the country that's not designated EAR99 and it ends up in the wrong hands, they will^H^H^H^H can come down on you like a ton of bricks. It's a relatively-big hassle in the hardware business, with disproportionately high stakes. Safe to say a Starlink receiver isn't EAR99.
- Zigurd 2y agoEasy: You need a service subscription to use Starlink. If you are paying for Starlink service after transferring it to Russia, yoo are complicit.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoYes, but that is very different than everyone in the upstream chain of custody being complicit.