ICC Judge Guillou loses all US IT accounts after MAGA sanctions [FR]

Translated:

> For starters, all accounts opened at US providers (Amazon, Airbnb, Netflix, Paypal, etc.) are immediately closed. The delivery companies whose capital is American stop delivering the ordered parcels, and the magistrate says that a hotel reservation taken for a stay in France has been blocked by the Expedia platform in the name of the sanctions to which he is subject.

> This is further complicated by the possible interruption of the payment methods that pass through the Visa or Mastercard networks. Nor can it make bank transfers via intermediaries like Western Union.

At some point the EU just should impose sanction on companies operating in the EU and implementing this kind of sanction.

Something I wonder is that, as mandated cryptographic checks for even sideloaded apps roll out to the Android ecosystem [0][1], is the provision of the capacity to install (or even use) applications in violation of sanctions?

Is Google required to essentially brick the phone of any sanctioned user using any of the international vendors here [2]? Certainly I would say the answer is at the very least "maybe," especially with how export restrictions have historically treated cryptography of all kinds.

It's really important to keep this in mind - it's not just about your ability to install unapproved apps, it's about basic levels of access to one's contacts, photographed memories, and fundamental ability to communicate. And this can be applied to anyone the increasingly-authoritarian U.S. government considers not even a threat, but politically expedient to paint as one.

[0] https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-ver...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

[2] https://www.android.com/certified/partners/

Similar to what happened to the Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, presiding over the case for the coup attempt by Bolsonaro. Trump used the Magnitsky Act against him [0] simply to support Bolsonaro.

The USA as we knew is long dead.

[0] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0211

Yeah, that's all completely illegal.

Sanctions abroad can't allow you to refuse service in this way. Depending on whether legal action is taken all these firms may be blocked from operating in Europe. There's also a specific blocking state further reinforcing this kind of thing.

Because of the blocking statue, contractual terminations because of sanctions are forbidden, so these firms still have to deliver. Apparently you may only void contracts due to terminations if you apply for a derogation from the European Commission.

US employees may be required to, but EU employees are forbidden from doing so.

You can't expect not to be arrested if you start actually fiddling with people's computers, even indirectly like that.