This is much bigger than the banning of a volunteer webhost. It shows the US government won't go through usual channels when Europeans do things that under eur

This is much bigger than the banning of a volunteer webhost. It shows the US government won't go through usual channels when Europeans do things that under european law, are probably¹ allowed. It shows, again, that US infrastructure is unreliable (in a non-technical sense) and is everywhere. An Italian bank "sacrificed" their customer because of the risk of losing access to Visa/USD network for international payments. The I in ICANN is not. It is US. Etc. ¹maybe they did break laws. In which case the US would usually ask Italy to deal with it. But either the US government decided this is too much hassle, or they knew Italy wasn't going to help, because under Italian law, everything was fine: we'll never know. But we do know that the US government will reach into European countries to stop NGOs operating there.