On a second note, our original poster is not entirely unreasonable. Given the arbitrary, unhinged and wantonly malvolent ways the US government and US courts use all things US to claim you being subject to US law, it is not unreasonable to think that at some point any such entity claims "you used TCP/IP for this, thus you are subject to US law. They do this bullshit with the Dollar already (see the case of that Huawei Lady sitting in a Canadian Jail on behest of the US), and they quite arbitrarily do so with other tech - in Australia there is an Iranian woman rotting in Jail (even in solitary) for three years now, fighting extradition to the US, because when she still worked in Iran she helped a small malaysian company obtain vanilla DSPs probably produced in Taiwan or Malaysia anyway and bought them for her company in Iran.
The US has become the world's ugly, malevolent and unpredictable bully, and I can't fault people trying to stay out of its way by a wide margin.