Summary: "Google considers that the territory that DPR considers theirs is indeed theirs," a source has told us. "The guy from Mariupol says that because his city is in Donetsk oblast' Google Clown blocked him considering him as a resident of DPR." Those sanctions are, as usual, punishing many of the victims; they punish the wrong people and help the occupier/invader/oppressor. "In this case they definitely punished the wrong person," the source has added. "Being a Ukrainian in Ukraine and a refugee, but also being punished by Google in the name of Ukraine is several levels of ironic." And another person has noted that "this is why i don't believe in the "clown" [...] if you're in the wrong country at the wrong time, there goes your data..."
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"In the United Kingdom, the Foreign Enlistment Act 1819 and the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 make it unlawful for British subjects to join the armed forces of any state warring with another state at peace with Britain."