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Jozef J

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Message 381 - Posted: 29 Mar 2017, 14:04:33 UTC

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,1066
One person from cuba ask but wcg admin deleted.. also whole wcg is dissabled from
http://archive.org/web/
So that it can be very annoying in the future for you if you become an "enemy of the united states". Your many years of donating work can be be obliterated or otherwise made by inaccessible.
a very simple example is here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-31-ea-blocked-origin-for-everyone-in-myanmar

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Sergei Chernykh
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Message 382 - Posted: 29 Mar 2017, 14:09:42 UTC

WCG is a corporate project led by IBM. Luckily I'm just a private person and not a subject to such sanctions :)
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