Warp wrote:
>   Yeah, certainly if there was some physical shop which refused to sell
> anything to anyone coming from eg. the middle-East or Africa, that would
> certainly cause a huge commotion and a bunch of lawsuits. But seemingly
> online stores are exempt from this law, for some reason? Exactly what is
> this based on?

I'm not sure if the US's laws based on ethnicity (i.e., your ancestors were 
from there) or based on citizenship.  I mean, I know many 
anti-discrimination laws disallow discrimination based on ethnicity. I just 
don't know if you're allowed to say "I don't sell to South Africans 
regardless of skin color" for example. It would make an interesting lawsuit.

We had one in California I think it was... the community (aka "home-owner's 
association", the group responsible for maintaining the local roads, local 
parks, paying for trash collection, etc) had passed regulations that you 
weren't allowed to sell the house to lawyers, because lawyers sue too much. 
A lawyer tried to buy, wasn't allowed to, and sued. Interestingly, it was 
upheld because profession isn't one of the things you're disallowed from 
discriminating against.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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