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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

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  1. guidoiaquinti · · focus · HN ↗
    Several International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have been unable to access their bank accounts or receive routine salary payments and financial transfers due to financial blockages triggered by United States sanctions. In the country where they live
    1. rapsey · · focus · HN ↗
      ICC judges getting the right wing activist treatment, except the activists get it from their own government.
      1. embedding-shape · · focus · HN ↗
        Are you saying the US government been implementing sanctions to make right wing activists not be able to receive bank transfers? That sounds like friendly fire and backwards, are you sure you understood the "source" correctly?
        1. sebzim4500 · · focus · HN ↗
          Not from the US, but for example anti-lockdown campaigners in Canada had their bank accounts frozen IIRC
          1. embedding-shape · · focus · HN ↗
            Wow, I think disagreeing with a lockdown in the face of a pandemic is pretty fucking stupid but even so, freezing people's bank accounts is even more messed up and should not happen over any sort of non-violent political actions in a modern democracy. Seems unblocked now, but still that seems like a bananas reaction.

            For reference as I hadn't heard about it before:

            &gt; Isabelle Jacques, assistant deputy minister of finance, told a committee of MPs that up to 210 bank accounts holding about $7.8 million were frozen under the financial measures contained in the Emergencies Act. - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;emergency-bank-measures-finance-committee-1.6360769" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;emergency-bank-measures-fin...

            1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
              They were blocking highways with their trucks, and the same people who criticise this still want to debank climate protestors who block highways with their bodies.
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