vincvinc

19 hours ago
"All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France."

How is this legal / OK?

marcosdumay

15 hours ago
The Law requires that they do it if their (the US) government demands.

If you are asking how it's OK, it's not. It's wrong on many different levels. But it's legal (or at least the US has laws that mandate that same thing, I don't know if they were the ones applied here).

Companies are generally free to choose who they are doing business with.

juliangmp

11 hours ago
They quite literally aren't in this case. They would get fined heavily if they did business with him.
A US company is free to cut off service to whatever foreigner it wants, just like a foreign country is free to ban whatever US firm it wants from operating in it.
Please look up what happened to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras or Costa Rica when they tried banning whatever US firm they wanted.

MichaelZuo

18 hours ago
Pretty much all companies only offer accounts without any guarantees, that can be realistically closed on a whim without any mandatory notice period.

The only exceptions are the high end enterprise accounts.