President of the United States is asked to withdraw from the sanctions of Internet services in the Crimea

A number of public organizations and representatives of the Russian government appealed to the US authorities with a request to lift the restriction of the work of Internet services in the Crimea.

In particular, the authors of the appeal direct the attention of US President Barack Obama to the fact that the decree of the President of the USA No. 13685 is discriminatory for Internet users of Crimea, RBC writes . So, on January 23 of this year, Crimean users received a notice about restricting access to the Google Apps service. After some time, notifications began to come from other companies that decided to stop working in Crimea: Amazon, Apple, PayPal, GoDaddy.

The appeal is addressed to US President Barack Obama and the leadership of ICANN.
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The authors of the letter are asking to remove Internet services in Crimea from under the sanctions, recognizing the right to access the Internet as a basic human right. “The situation undermines universally accepted principles and values, trust in an open and interconnected information space, can discredit the process of further development and ultimately creates a serious threat of its fragmentation,” the letter says.

It is worth noting that the current appeal is not the first. Similar proposals were made by representatives of a number of Russian and international organizations, including Access, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Global Voices Advocacy and the Open Technology Institute.

The decree itself was signed by the President of the United States on December 19, 2014. The law prohibits the “export, re-export, sale or supply, directly or indirectly, of any goods, services or technologies from the United States or the United States, wherever it is located”.