Ask HN: If a country gets on the bad side of US, what all tech it can lose?

[desi_ninja]

With the recent Russia-Ukraine war got me thinking how many of these global companies are American first when appropriate time. The stakes were high this time but the boycott could be used as a tool in future for much lower stakes.

Is there a protection against it in other countries? Will AWS, Teams, Google, PayPal, Twitter stop working? What other critical services run by American corp can be at risk?

[inemesitaffia]

Read the sanctions on Crimea

[PaulHoule]

Look at Iran and North Korea for case studies of countries that have been under boycott for a long time.

Personally though if Teams and X went away I wouldn't miss 'em.

[desi_ninja]

More questions: Will phone manufacturers will be able to sell Android phones in non US supported countries?