In reply to Steven Gliebe.

There own business decisions just not with respect to privacy laws, labour laws, property laws, and contract laws…

If these companies are not operating in China, Saudi Arabia and the UAE then great. They have a consistent ethical framework to which their businesses operate. However, I doubt they refuse customers from these markets on the basis of what their governments do.

Beyond that, what are the ethical considerations for blank cancelling services in Russia with respect to non-businesses? If a Russian hospital, homeless shelter or an animal shelter was hosting with these hosting services, are they being cancelled as well?

What a state does, and a what a population does or supports are not wholly linked. The next time the US invades a country illegally like Iraq, will these hosting companies withdraw from the US market completely on the basis of the US governments actions? Doubtful.

Trying to stop human suffering be causing more human suffering just seems like a bizarre thing to do. This is what your doing if you cancel for example, the hosting of freelancer website designers in Russia etc. Will every Russian affected understand the reasoning behind it? Or will some start to hate Western Countries more as a result of the pain inflected on them for things completely outside their control?