In solidarity with Ukraine, companies including Netflix, Uber, Cisco and many more are making it harder for people in Russia to access some of the world's most widely used technologies.
San Jose City Hall was lit up with Ukrainian flag color Monday as the city says it is cutting ties with its Russian Sister City.
"The world is connected. You cannot go anywhere in the world without seeing the same product, the same lingo, the same influencers," San Jose State University tech expert, Ahmed Banafa told ABC7 News."And now you come and act like this, and you think you can just live without the world? You cut yourself completely out of it. You cannot survive."Ukrainian tech workers living in Silicon Valley said cutting off Russia's access will take away tools needed to wage war.
"My first impulse was to go back to Ukraine and fight there. I felt that I have to be there. But then I realized that I'm not military training," he continued."I was never a military service, and most likely I will be a burden. I won't be useful at all."
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