Comment by mynameisvlad
5 years ago
They are a private corporation who is able to choose who to do business with, including blacklisting a full nation.
They also have what sounds like a sizeable workforce in Ukraine itself, so it should be pretty obvious why they chose to blacklist the entire nation invading their direct coworkers'.
If their customers are US persons it's not that simple, because national origin is a protected status.
Some US citizens with Russian heritage could have Russian addresses listed like 10 years ago.
Would be funny to see this case in court.
It doesn't work that way. Discrimination doesn't follow the transitive property. To discriminate illegally you have to discriminate for an illegal reason. Discriminating for a legal reason while that person also belongs to a protected class is not illegal.
What’s the legal reason here though? That’s a genuine question, I don’t know much about US law.
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It seems like they're banning people who simply have a background in that country.
There are a few words for that philosophy, and legality of that business practice becomes questionable.