Kevin Standlee 💉x8
Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵"Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary" https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/
JM
Ariaflame@meylodie @freakonometrics As if it was easy. They have their tentacles in everything.
Andreea@ariaflame @meylodie @freakonometrics it’s really not so simple. When you look at subsidiaries and more, you realize how much of modern life depends on them.
This French ICCJ judge that was also banned goes into more details:
“It goes far beyond simply being banned from US territory. The sanctions affect all aspects of my daily life. They prohibit any American individual or legal entity, any person or company, including their overseas subsidiaries, from providing me with services.
All my accounts with American companies, such as Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal and others, have been closed. For example, I booked a hotel in France through Expedia, and a few hours later, the company sent me an email canceling the reservation, citing the sanctions. In practice, you can no longer shop online because you do not know if the packaging your product comes in is American. Being under sanctions is like being sent back to the 1990s.
There are banks, even non-American ones, that close the accounts of sanctioned individuals. Any banking transaction involving an American individual or company, or conducted in US dollars, or in a currency that uses the dollar for conversion, is prohibited. In practice, you are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system. On top of that, all payment systems are American: American Express, Visa, Mastercard. Overnight, you find yourself without a bank card, and these companies have an almost complete monopoly, at least in Europe.”
This is arbitrary and intentional.
MJ Ray@diemkay @ariaflame @[email protected] @freakonometrics why is nobody asking why the judge was still using Expedia instead of booking direct like anyone aware of the poisonous effect of those broker sites? Aren't judges meant to be smart?
@mjr @diemkay @freakonometrics Nice cherry picking of one example. Booking direct how? You need a credit card for that. Who controls that? If someone broke your legs and made you use a bad wheelchair what would you think of someone who told you that you should just push harder?
@ariaflame @diemkay @freakonometrics M le juge did the cherry-picking, not me. It was the only example given. And it is still possible to part-pay on arrival at some hotels here, but maybe not where they were going.
I acknowledge there are problems with the US domination, but it sounds like the judge was also helping cause the problems now biting, never expecting the face-eating leopards to eat their face.
Fernando M. S. 🇵🇸@mjr @ariaflame @diemkay @freakonometrics the judge should be allowed to do her job without this kind of fear, I think. Given this, she will probably be able to find ways to circumvent these sanctions, at least for as long as the orange is leading Gilead.
Epistomai@freakonometrics this is why it terrifies me any 🇺🇸 technology, especially the f-35s. They can shut them down if not in the mood
Epic Null@freakonometrics Ah fuck, not this again
bossito 🇪🇺@freakonometrics another reminder to avoid US services as much as possible, which of course isn't easy, but perfection is the enemy of the good. -> @BuyEU
Petr Menšík 
@freakonometrics is there any other payment card issuer owned and operating under EU jurisdiction? It seems we desperately need one. It is not a rocket science, I am sure we can make software needed for it as well. Has anyone started working on it @EUCommission ? These are not sanctioned terrorists, but people doing valuable job for society. How has #EU responded to it?
Felix Denbratt@freakonometrics possibly the most obvious example for why we urgently need to divest from US economic system and tech. Really disturbing this #eupol #svpol #icc