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This summer Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived at her home in The Hague and, as was her habit, called out “Alexa”.
There was silence. The voice-activated assistant did not respond. “Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me,” Prost recalled in an interview with The Irish Times.
Prost had been added to the United States’ sanctions list, because in 2020 she ruled to authorise an investigation into possible atrocities in Afghanistan, including by US troops. Amazon, obliged to implement the sanctions as a US company, had cancelled her account.
It was just the start of what Prost describes as a “pervasive, negative effect” of the sanctions across all aspects of her life, which has shut her out from much of the international banking system.
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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.
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.
My favorite was the company I worked for had yearly trainings including that I was not allowed to bribe foreign heads of state… Bitch I am trying to figure how to afford dinner?? Does King Charles accept change, I maybe able to find a dime…
Not having access to Alexa and other invasive products sounds liberating, not a punishment.
…which has shut her out from much of the international banking system.
This, not so much.
Not if you become accustomed to it and revolve your daily habits around it. But yeah, once she will get home assistant it will clearly be a liberating experience.
