This is pretty wild. The judge made judgement not friendly to America so she got sanctioned which even outside of America means she can't use a lot of services.

For example even in Canada if you couldn't use proper IOS and Google Android it would make it very difficult to use mobile bank apps given how current app security works.

This summer Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived at her home in The Hague and, as was her habit, called out “Alexa”.

There was silence. The voice-activated assistant did not respond. “Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me,” Prost recalled in an interview with The Irish Times.

For those wondering about the numbered of sanctions people.

According to OFAC, there are approximately

12,000 names on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN) list, [17] which is the most restrictive category of targeted U.S. sanctions, targeting U.S.-designated terrorists, officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes, and international criminals (e.g. drug traffickers) by blocking their U.S. assets and restricting U.S. persons from engaging in any transactions with them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanctions

And this is exactly why we need to break our dependance with US tech

This article has been published 4 months ago.

Right.

Since then, has the USA turned around, or are they still using sanctions as a pressure?

No, it has not turned around. It's gotten even worse since.

But there is no reason imho to repost things that old because we know this already. If we start posting things from last year because they didn't get better we might soon have a lot of re-reads.

In addition, I don't see how this is related to Canada.

It's just another post in OP's eternal propaganda mission. To give you an idea what I mean: China's minority policy hasn't turned around. Russia is still waging a war against Ukraine. Iran is still threatening protesters at home. Should we post all these here in the Canada community?

If you knew about it already you would know that the judge is Canadian.

and the situation isn’t getting any better https://www.jpost.com/international/article-887510