marcosdumay
15 hours agoThe 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).
layer8
16 hours agoCompanies are generally free to choose who they are doing business with.
juliangmp
11 hours agoThey quite literally aren't in this case. They would get fined heavily if they did business with him.
vkou
18 hours agoA 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.
jatsek
18 hours agoPlease look up what happened to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras or Costa Rica when they tried banning whatever US firm they wanted.
MichaelZuo
18 hours agoPretty 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.
vincvinc
19 hours agoHow is this legal / OK?