“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 2:05 AM UTC

quaquaqua1 wrote: post #88

dogma1138 wrote: post #35

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Because Crimea is a defacto Russian state now and for the most part a large portion of the population and the current government is participating in it. The sanctions are for the most part per the request of the Ukrainian government. If Catalonia becomes a separatist state tomorrow and Spain and its allies sanction it everyone in it will be under sanctions regardless of who or what they support. This is what happens…

>for the most part the population is participating in it If anyone ever dared to assert that I support US war mongering just because I live the US..... lord

Post by kragen » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 2:05 AM UTC

radicalriddler wrote: post #19

kragen wrote: post #6

During the Cold War, the primary thing that distinguished the US side from the USSR side was that, while speech by USSR people and people sympathetic to the USSR (like, say, CPUSA) was published in the US, publishing speech sympathetic to the US in the USSR would get you arrested. It seems like the US has become what the USSR was: companies who publish speech from people in Iran or Crimea are now violating the law by…

This is a bit off topic, so choose not to answer if you want, but can you link me evidence of Chomsky being a USSR sympathizer? From what I've read, he's a Libertarian Socialist primarily, which seems to be the opposite of the totalitarian regime that the Russians ran under the Soviet Union.

Post by realusername » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 2:06 AM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #83

realusername wrote: post #36

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Why do we always have a comment like this completely missing the point about Github? If git was synonymous of Github, Microsoft would not have spent 7 billion to buy it, there's a lot of features on top of git. And for me, whether it's a decision of the US government or Github does not matter much.

Maybe Microsoft missed the point of it! I don't use github. I use Amazon CodeCommit. The fact is, github adds value because it isn't "decentralized". And any organization that runs something will have people that disagree with it and/or government regulations it will need to follow. git, however, it nicely distributed and you can host a repo anywhere you want and be discoverable through other means.

Post by ShinTakuya » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 2:07 AM UTC

topspin wrote: post #60

ShinTakuya wrote: post #44

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I don't like what's going in Crimea either, and I support most sanctions against it, but I also don't understand why they should be excluded from open source software participation. On an idealogical basis I reject the idea of OSS being politicised. Otherwise, where do we stop?

"OSS being politicised" GitHub is a subsidiary of Microsoft, a US company with lucrative interests in the US government. While this does indeed stifle OSS activity for people in Crimea it isn't really about OSS.

Post by jessaustin » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 2:09 AM UTC

ralph84 wrote: post #69

dngray wrote: post #50

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> Would that really change anything? I think what we’re seeing is the inevitable result of the internet and tech companies becoming the most important aspect of modern civilisation. I think what we are seeing is the implementation of authoritarian governments, something that has been on the increase nearly everywhere, in the last 20 years. People have in the developed world had it, too good for too long. Complacency…

Only problem with your theory is that the number of fully-embargoed countries by the US has decreased over the last 20 years, and all of the still-embargoed countries except for Crimea have been on the list for longer than 20 years.