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not much chance of you being tortured or killed for the content of your email though. While I get the sentiment - if you operate in a country you need to follo
by junklight 17y ago
not much chance of you being tortured or killed for the content of your email though.
While I get the sentiment - if you operate in a country you need to follow the laws of the land no matter how you might personally view them - the reality is that this action might have actually killed people. Even if it didn't do - do you think that in that position yourself you could have said with a clear conscience: "nothing bad will happen to these people" if I give out their details?
- davidw 17y agoI didn't think US companies were supposed to operate in Iran in any case.
- quant18 17y agoFor almost a year, Yahoo stopped accepting new e-mail registrations from Iran [1], but I'm told they didn't touch existing accounts. Last August they started accepting new registrations again [2]. I think sanctions wouldn't be any issue because no money changes hands? That was apparently Google's position. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/07/yahoo_google_microsft_iran/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/07/yahoo_google_microsf... [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/26/yahoo_microsoft_iran_reinstated/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/26/yahoo_microsoft_iran...