Comments on: Web Host Uses OFAC Sanctions To Boot Dissident Bloggers http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/466 Latest News on DDTC, BIS, OFAC, and other export law matters Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:43:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ex-OFAC http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/466/comment-page-1#comment-21860 Ex-OFAC Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:23:10 +0000 http://www.exportlawblog.com/?p=466#comment-21860 The cited list of "sanctioned countries" is problematic, given OFAC's avowed desire to use "smart sanctions" (or "targeted sanctions") in all possible contexts, so as NOT to harm innocent parties, while targeting the bad guys. There are no OFAC territorial sanctions against Belarus (or, for that matter, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, or that well-know "country": the former Liberian Regime of Charles Taylor). The web host is countering U.S. Government policy by its expansion of targeted sanctions to the territories (and innocent parties) of these "sanctioned countries." The cited list of “sanctioned countries” is problematic, given OFAC’s avowed desire to use “smart sanctions” (or “targeted sanctions”) in all possible contexts, so as NOT to harm innocent parties, while targeting the bad guys. There are no OFAC territorial sanctions against Belarus (or, for that matter, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, or that well-know “country”: the former Liberian Regime of Charles Taylor). The web host is countering U.S. Government policy by its expansion of targeted sanctions to the territories (and innocent parties) of these “sanctioned countries.”

]]> By: ldm http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/466/comment-page-1#comment-21813 ldm Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:39:29 +0000 http://www.exportlawblog.com/?p=466#comment-21813 Pure speculation by me - maybe the web host is erring on the side of caution since it's nearly impossible to tell who sponsors or are the principals of a webiste, or company for that matter. Having worked for a computer company, we ran into a similar issue when trying to screen email addresses. They can be virtually anonymous. Pure speculation by me – maybe the web host is erring on the side of caution since it’s nearly impossible to tell who sponsors or are the principals of a webiste, or company for that matter.

Having worked for a computer company, we ran into a similar issue when trying to screen email addresses. They can be virtually anonymous.

]]> By: Kamangir http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/466/comment-page-1#comment-21812 Kamangir Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:56:43 +0000 http://www.exportlawblog.com/?p=466#comment-21812 Thank you sir. Thank you sir.

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