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by balderdash 1450 days ago
So your argument is that companies and people should not follow the law or do what’s right because people can circumvent their efforts?!

“Why’d you sell vodka to that 12 year old? Ahh well it’s trivial for them to go out and get a fake ID…so I don’t bother checking ID”

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Maybe his argument is that spyware should be illegal, regardless of whether the operator is US or Russia.
I mean to be fair you sound like the type that if they made homosexuality illegal that you'd be the first to start reporting people cause you don't care of the crime makes sense only that it is illegal.
Guess you just ignored the “do what’s right” part of my comment, that’s convenient.

So please explain to me what part of a law that prohibits people from doing business with a Russian state owned enterprise doesn’t make sense?

I could go on a tangent about how the US makes anti-BDS laws, but the reality is that sanctioned companies are not easy to follow and track, and Google ceased doing business as soon as they were alerted. You're hyperbolic statement indicated that you only cared about what was illegal, not whether they were making legitimate efforts to follow the laws.

However, sanctions don't necessarily indicate a moral implication... merely a political one.