<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 27, 2022, at 1:34 PM, J Scott Marcus <<a href="mailto:scott@scottmarcus.com" class="">scott@scottmarcus.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">Seems very reasonable to me. But I could also see an argument for blocking both Sputnik and RT in the first wave, which still makes for a small enough test list.</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Ok, seems reasonable. Others want to chime in on this, and suggest a few other organizations and individuals for this experimental round?<br class=""><br class="">Ordinarily, of course, we’d be going at this the other way around… Governmentally-defined sanctions would be our input, and we’d be considering whether they seem reasonable for Internet implementation, rather than us picking from a menu of governmentally-defined entities based on our convenience or predilections. In any event, our next step after defining the experimental list, is to document clearly what the governmental sources and provided information are.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, here’s the EU source:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L:2022:065:FULL&from=EN" class="">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L:2022:065:FULL&from=EN</a></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">ANNEX XV</b></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">LIST OF LEGAL PERSONS, ENTITIES OR BODIES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2F</b></div></div><div class=""><div class="">RT- Russia Today English</div></div><div class=""><div class="">RT- Russia Today UK</div></div><div class=""><div class="">RT - Russia Today Germany</div></div><div class=""><div class="">RT - Russia Today France</div></div><div class=""><div class="">RT- Russia Today Spanish</div></div><div class=""><div class="">Sputnik</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class="">…Which actually isn’t very detailed. No postal addresses, no alternate-language representations, no corporation numbers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As of March 18, the Norwegian government had decided to adopt other EU sanctions <i class="">BUT NOT</i> those against RT and Sputnik:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/russia_sanctions/id2904511/" class="">https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/russia_sanctions/id2904511/</a></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As of March 25, the Swiss government had decided to adopt other EU sanctions <i class="">BUT NOT</i> those against RT and Sputnik:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/12969462-la-suisse-adopte-de-nouvelles-sanctions-mais-ninterdit-pas-russia-today-et-sputnik.html" class="">https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/12969462-la-suisse-adopte-de-nouvelles-sanctions-mais-ninterdit-pas-russia-today-et-sputnik.html</a></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As of March 25, the Australian government sanctioned Russia Today (and three other Russian propaganda outlets):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/marise-payne/media-release/australia-places-additional-sanctions-russia-and-belarus" class="">https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/marise-payne/media-release/australia-places-additional-sanctions-russia-and-belarus</a></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">…but I still need to track down the actual legislation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As of March 16, the Canadian broadcast regulator sanctioned Russia Today:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2022/2022-68.pdf" class="">https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2022/2022-68.pdf</a></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The US State Department published this report back in January:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Kremlin-Funded-Media_January_update-19.pdf" class="">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Kremlin-Funded-Media_January_update-19.pdf</a></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><span id="x-apple-selection:end"></span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">…but as of today, neither RT nor Sputnik appear in the US sanctions list:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/ssi/ssilist.txt" class="">https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/ssi/ssilist.txt</a></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Likewise, neither RT nor Sputnik appear in the UK sanctions list:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://ofsistorage.blob.core.windows.net/publishlive/UKSL/UKSanctionsList.html" class="">https://ofsistorage.blob.core.windows.net/publishlive/UKSL/UKSanctionsList.html</a></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So either we use this mixed outcome as input to a debate on whether EU/AU/CA constitutes a sufficient quorum, in the absence of US/UK/NO/CH/others, or we go back and see if there are other entities that represent a broader consensus among governments.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> -Bill<br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>