<div dir="auto">Given the banking and financial sanctions, I’ll bet Cogent figured the prospects of them getting paid were pretty slim anyway. I suspect it was more of a strait forward business decision, than anything else. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 13:43 Matthew Petach <<a href="mailto:matt@petach.org">matt@petach.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If they're going to follow the War Conventions in the Hauge, they should likewise terminate all customer connections to Ukraine as well, if they're considering themselves to be a neutral party. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Of course, that doesn't apply if they're taking a side as a participant in the conflict.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Shamelessly copying from Sean Donelan...</div><div dir="auto"><br><a href="https://www.icrc.org/en" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://www.icrc.org/en</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Convention (V) respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Persons in Case of War on Land. The Hague, 18 October 1907.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">CHAPTER I : THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF NEUTRAL POWERS - ART. 8.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Art. 8. A neutral Power is not called upon to forbid or restrict the use</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">on behalf of the belligerents of telegraph or telephone cables or of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">wireless telegraphy apparatus belonging to it or to companies or private</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">individuals.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">CHAPTER I : THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF NEUTRAL POWERS - ART. 9.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Art. 9. Every measure of restriction or prohibition taken by a neutral</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Power in regard to the matters referred to in Articles 7 and 8</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">must be impartially applied by it to both belligerents.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">A neutral Power must see to the same obligation being observed by</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">companies or private individuals owning telegraph or telephone cables or</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">wireless telegraphy apparatus.</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 4, 2022, 11:20 Andy Ringsmuth <<a href="mailto:andy@andyring.com" target="_blank">andy@andyring.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Apparently effective at noon EDT, which would be a couple hours ago.<br>
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Washington Post, but here’s a paywall-free archive:<br>
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<a href="https://archive.ph/TFgyg" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/TFgyg</a><br><br>
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