On: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

[BaconPackets]

That's interesting. I'm not sure where the technicality resides. If that situation is the case, I assume that it would be quite catastrophic for anyone using non-Russian services for IT.

[jacquesm → BaconPackets]

That is correct. Hence this Tell HN, unfortunately it got flagged.

[Scoundreller → jacquesm]

Still on front page, but grayed

[mkr-hn → Scoundreller]

Gray just means you opened it since it points to the comments. It's HN's visited link style. It looks like enough people vouched or a mod intervened.

[jacquesm → mkr-hn]

The latter.

[cutemonster → jacquesm]

Why did it get flagged?

[jacquesm → cutemonster]

No idea, flags don't require a reason.

[azinman2 → BaconPackets]

Cutting off SWIFT I believe is a primary way of making it impossible to pay...

[astrange → azinman2]

SWIFT is a messaging network and could be replaced by email.

They’ve been banned from the US/UK central banks and can’t settle transactions in those currencies at all. Maybe more by now.