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§ 542.511 Exportation of certain services incident to internet based communications.
(a) Authorized services—(1) Services related to the exchange of communications over the internet. Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, all transactions prohibited by this part that are related to the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States or by U.S. persons, wherever located, to persons in Syria of services incident to the exchange of communications over the internet, such as instant messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing, blogging, social media platforms, collaboration platforms, video conferencing, e-gaming, e-learning platforms, automated translation, web maps, and user authentication services, as well as cloud-based services in support of the foregoing, are authorized.
(2) Services incident to the export or reexport of software and hardware not subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Except as provided...
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1) On 6-5-24, OFAC amended 542.511 to significantly expand the version in force as of 5-2-14. The prior version can be found at https://govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2023-title31-vol3/xml/CFR-2023-title31-vol3-part542.xml and the text on the left. More specifically, OFAC changed 541.511 from a GL that authorized “services incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet…provided that such services are publicly available at no cost to the user” (i.e. the most narrow type of internet services GL), to one that roughly tracks the June 2024 version of 560.540 of the ITSR. A broad array of internet based services...