[vincvinc]

"All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France."

How is this legal / OK?

[marcosdumay]

The Law requires that they do it if their (the US) government demands.

If you are asking how it's OK, it's not. It's wrong on many different levels. But it's legal (or at least the US has laws that mandate that same thing, I don't know if they were the ones applied here).

[vkou]

A US company is free to cut off service to whatever foreigner it wants, just like a foreign country is free to ban whatever US firm it wants from operating in it.

[jatsek]

Please look up what happened to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras or Costa Rica when they tried banning whatever US firm they wanted.

[hn_acker]

The US government is not free to use frivolous sanctions to indirectly make payment processors stop serving a foreigner.

[layer8]

Companies are generally free to choose who they are doing business with.

[juliangmp]

They quite literally aren't in this case. They would get fined heavily if they did business with him.

[MichaelZuo]

Pretty much all companies only offer accounts without any guarantees, that can be realistically closed on a whim without any mandatory notice period.

The only exceptions are the high end enterprise accounts.

[hn_acker]

Companies can voluntarily close accounts for almost any reason or no reason. The US government needs a legal justification for forcing companies to close an account.