Notion to terminate accounts with Russian billing history regardless of location

https://www.notion.so/help/restrictions-for-customers-based-in-russia

20 13 2 years ago

From the announcement: "...Due to these restrictions, on September 9, 2024, Notion will no longer provide users located in Russia access to the platform. This includes:... If any billing information connected with the workspace is currently or was previously associated with Russia, the workspace will be terminated. This is necessary for compliance with sanctions, and updating an account’s billing information will not change the restriction."

bachmeier• 2 years ago

You changed the important part to ...: "The U.S. government has introduced restrictions prohibiting access to certain software products and services to any person in Russia."

RockstarSprain2• 2 years ago

I omitted this part to keep the excerpt short, yet I indicated the omission appropriately. Might have been better to keep it though, I agree.

hunglee2• 2 years ago

Geopolitical risk needs to be factored into any cloud service. This will either be 'national champions' or better yet, company self hosted.

znpy• 2 years ago

I wonder if this applies to the tech giants as well. Aws accounts? Amazon prime? Google cloud or google workspaces customers? Apple iCloud users? Microsoft office and teams users? Azure? Slack users?

Or as usual it’s just the small fish that have to remain compliant while the big fish need can lawyer away their issues (and keep billing) ?

enether• 2 years ago

A 10 day notice before they delete your data?

This is unacceptable regardless of the political situation today.

The countries are not even in direct war with one another.

But this goes to show that in the event of direct war - companies may instantly delete all of your data.

Makes you think how much “soft power” the US yields with all of its tech monopolies…

hulitu2• 2 years ago

The countries are not even in direct war with one another.

Oficially. /s

properpopper• 2 years ago

I don't understand why it's acceptable in the modern world to discriminate a human being based on where they were born? I see no protests, no news about it, everyone silently agrees.

Feels like they learnt nothing from racial discrimination

delfinom• 2 years ago

It isn't discriminating on where you are born.

The people in that country can move or overthrow their government to replace it with one that isn't trying to genocide eastern Europe and install dictators in the rest of the world.

atiedebee• 2 years ago

Easier said than done, they are not French after all.

gs17• 2 years ago

As long as your billing information has never been associated with Russia, you will regain access to Notion once you leave the country.

They can't even move to keep the account.

hulitu2• 2 years ago

War is peace, liberty is slavery.

Because the bosses say so. Welcome to "democracy", whatever that means.

Notion to terminate accounts with Russian billing history regardless of location

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