[BaconPackets]

What do you mean by unable to pay? Would it not just be more expensive? Assuming the banks will convert your transactions when you pay.

The Russian banks seem to have stockpiled currency, so I assume they will be able to keep the loop going.

[muzani]

As in they will not legally be allowed to accept payments from Russia. There will probably be usage of VPNs and USD/BTC, but that will also probably not be legal too. And even if it were legal, a lot of people and companies will just not do it. The world plans to make things very difficult for Russia should the war continue.

Also I just noticed elsewhere on HN that Namecheap has officially sanctioned Russia themselves.

[EnOstac6]

And this Namecheap sanctions just hit independent students journal DOXA.

Four of its journalists are being trialed right now because of January 2021 protests. They are accused for sharing a motivational video addressed to students not to stay silent.

Yesterday russian censorship started to block DOXA site, because they published anti-war debate manual. They switched their domain then got sanctioned by Namecheap.

It is very hard to host something inside country if you are targeted by censoring.

[ithkuil]

Namespace CEO sad that they make exceptions and you just have to contact them.

[willis936]

While much more limited than a website, I think torrent is a good solution to censorship-resistant file sharing.

Getting an index of torrents around is the trick.

[BaconPackets]

That's interesting. I'm not sure where the technicality resides. If that situation is the case, I assume that it would be quite catastrophic for anyone using non-Russian services for IT.

[jacquesm]

That is correct. Hence this Tell HN, unfortunately it got flagged.

[Scoundreller]

Still on front page, but grayed

[mkr-hn]

Gray just means you opened it since it points to the comments. It's HN's visited link style. It looks like enough people vouched or a mod intervened.

[jacquesm]

The latter.

[cutemonster]

Why did it get flagged?

[jacquesm]

No idea, flags don't require a reason.

[azinman2]

Cutting off SWIFT I believe is a primary way of making it impossible to pay...

[astrange]

SWIFT is a messaging network and could be replaced by email.

They’ve been banned from the US/UK central banks and can’t settle transactions in those currencies at all. Maybe more by now.

[alangibson]

Most (all?) Russian banks got booted from the SWIFT interchange system. That takes away the technical mechanism for doing transfers.

[jacquesm]

https://www.reuters.com/business/uk-says-targeting-russian-c...