I work in a financial company and every year I have to take a training on money laundering and sanctioned individuals/companies/countries. They always use arms and drug traffickers on the examples, hope they update it explain why we can't insure the car of the ICC judges.

There should be automatic retaliatory sanctions when taking actions impeding an ICC judge.

Would be great of the sanctioning hearing / decisions were made public and accountable.

Right below this headline on the Irish Times website, there are links to share on Facebook, X, Whatsapp, all owned by US companies.

There's a long way to go toward digital independance. There should be buttons to share via Mastodon, Email, .. shown before those US walled gardens.

Not having access to Alexa and other invasive products sounds liberating, not a punishment.

People and countries have to stop respecting US sanctions. Unfortunately it's not time yet but we're getting there I think.

USA is a rogue state, the fact that they do these things administratively is complete disregard for human rights and complete disregard for the concept of operating within the law.
It is yet another example of how USA does not respect civil rights of people of other nations, and they don't respect the sovereignty even of "allied" countries.
It's disgusting, and it has infuriated me for decades how we in for instance Europe has allowed USA to do this, without as much as criticism.

There is no way it can be considered acceptable that USA can apply pressure on what a judge of a sovereign country or international organization decides. Not a judge or any politician or public servant or any private citizen for that matter.
But the fact that USA has the audacity to go after ICC judges, shows the extreme level of entitlement and exceptionalism USA feel they have in the world.

USA MUST be treated as a rogue nation, and we can't allow them to continue. If Amazon does this, we need to ban Amazon in EU.
And fuck all the idiots that use Amazon cloud services, you should get the fuck away from American services already. It's been crystal clear obvious that they operate illegally according to EU law at least since Obama was president!
Why the fuck are people still using their crap!

Love my Rules Based Intentional Order.

US government and billionaire tech companies intertwine and use both their influence to enforce compliance beyond democratic rules. That's the new USA foreign policy: (peace thru force/strength/power, national security strategy)

1. European members that criticized big tech or the president have been blocked from entering the USA, (and USA pushing their culture views on Europe by all means necessary)
2. Maduro getting kidnapped and his country getting taken over cause he didn't comply
3. The U.S. has never ratified the ICC anyway because why would they give up the freedom to do what they want... and normally does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC.

The 2002 American Service-Members’ Protection Act (ASPA) literally states that the U.S. will attempt to protect U.S. military personnel and other citizens from ICC persecution — even with military action if necessary.

That bill was nicknamed “The Hague Invasion Act” because in theory it authorizes the president to use force to free Americans from ICC prison.

They even go as far as using big tech to blackmail members of the ICC that investigate war crimes of the US military (or Israel). Like you see in the article... crazy.

The US and Israel reject the jurisdiction of the court. Neither country is among the 125 signatories of the Rome Statute, which established the ICC in 1998. However, the treaty sets out that nationals of non-member states can be tried for crimes that take place on the territory of states that are signatories.

Afghanistan signed it in 2003 and the state of Palestine in 2014. The court therefore asserts its jurisdiction to prosecute the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression that have taken place in Gaza, East Jerusalem or the West Bank, no matter the nationality of the alleged perpetrators.

In an executive order announcing the first round of ICC sanctions this year, US president Donald Trump said the court represented an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States” for its investigations into nationals of the US and Israel. The state department accused the court of conducting “lawfare” and infringing on US sovereignty.

Along with the ICC staff, the US also sanctioned three Palestinian NGOs for engaging with the court in its efforts to “ investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute Israeli nationals”. The court is preparing for the possibility that the ICC itself might be sanctioned as an entity any day.

Originally from Winnepeg, Prost was a public prosecutor in Canada and became specialized in the prosecution of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. She served as a judge on the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which led to the conviction of multiple people for carrying out a genocide in Srebrenica.

I guess america hates growing because you grow and become stronger from criticism and self reflection from journalists, but nah rather hate free speech and oppress criticism by all means necessary cause we wannea become weaker not stronger.

The idiot will push more countries away fron US financial institutions and toward chinese ones

I wonder how many humiliations the Europeans will suffer before they wake up

Seems like an incredibly bad idea for an ICC judge to be using Alexa/"OK Google"/Siri in any capacity.

This is economic terrorism

Outrageous. Good for the judge for going public, everyone has to know what happens when you're cutoff US services and how untrustworthy they are.

Interfering in the judicial system makes U.S. no different than the wild-west they run in Russia with oligarchs.

Another proof that EU must immediately come with its own payment system and cut these meaningless ties with US corporations.

"Do as we demand or we'll bully and terrorise you."
Yep, seems about right for the american government.

Hey babe, wake up!

Another reason dropped today!

This article has been published 4 months ago.

Fuck the USA

This was on World News yesterday, but I'll repeat my comment to it here:
USA is a rogue state, the fact that they do these things administratively is complete disregard for human rights and complete disregard for the concept of operating within the law.
It is yet another example of how USA does not respect civil rights of people of other nations, and they don't respect the sovereignty even of "allied" countries.
It's disgusting, and it has infuriated me for decades how we in for instance Europe has allowed USA to do this, without as much as criticism.

There is no way it can be considered acceptable that USA can apply pressure on what a judge of a sovereign country or international organization decides. Not a judge or any politician or public servant or any private citizen for that matter.
But the fact that USA has the audacity to go after ICC judges, shows the extreme level of entitlement and exceptionalism USA feel they have in the world.

USA MUST be treated as a rogue nation, and we can't allow them to continue. If Amazon does this, we need to ban Amazon in EU.
And fuck all the idiots that use Amazon cloud services, you should get the fuck away from American services already. It's been crystal clear obvious that they operate illegally according to EU law at least since Obama was president!
Why the fuck are people still using their crap!

There's always ways around those sanctions. As an American that's never held a credit card, it's easy to send money or order things online w/o using one.

What this article reflects is the hardship of a person that uses US based, "convenience-oriented" financial systems.

What blew my mind was when I was traveling in the EU some years ago, were the options for cash cards and how they had more privacy controls on them than in the US. The US offers fuck-all for privacy in way too many instances. Europe is decades ahead of America now in that regard.

Homegirl just needs to change tactics.

Also, Alexa (like Siri and Cortana) is a snoop, NEVER use it.

It just speeds up Europe’s moving away from anything US American. Many friends and family are switching products, travel plans etc etc, and governments are following. This has consequences, yanks.