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GitHub has no choice but to comply with U.S. laws and regulations, yet I'm not seeing anyone here claim that GitHub is a "direct arm" of the U.S. government? Oh right, common sense and basic logic only apply when the involved entities are American. For everyone else it's all about hypocrisy and double standards in the purpose of nationalist chest-thumping.
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That comment deserves more detail. Blocking an entire sovereign nation from significant useful "free" information seems pretty important to me.
Iranian users being unable to use GitHub is an incredibly insignificant issue.
Microsoft banned all Iranian users. And crimea if I recall correctly. Financial support of open source is a nice thing, but folding open source into the world of US political choas seems so wrong. I for one will be moving my projects elsewhere. Not sure where yet, probably a bitbucket server.
So where is GitLab hosted? Would they be under the same restriction?
Why are these people assuming GitHub is some sort of an open source authority. Is it so difficult to understand it’s a company that hosts free and open source projects like any other service? The ignorance is just baffling.
These devs are stuck in a tough situation and your first reaction is to sneer and insult them? The complete lack of basic empathy is just baffling.
It's amazing how people don't see that this isn't because of human rights. It's literally one country bullying another.
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While I’ve no familiarity with the law in this area, I’d imagine this is surely still illegal too? If one could just openly pass the business to a foreign partner it would somewhat defeat the purpose of sanctions.
Yeah, watching Hacker News try to violate sanctions from first principles is amusing.
Recent discussion "GitHub and Trade Controls" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20526039 and "My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531039 And related "How is it like to be a dev in Iran" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20493699 > let us download our private repositories and also make them public (setting control). Seems reasonabl…
Do the trade restrictions just mean they must refrain from engaging in monetary transactions? Continuing to offer various free services would be nice.
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What are they supposed to? Management buyout and relocation to Switzerland?
Is it really an option? Is Switzerland free to not accept sanctions on Iran by America?
its technically quite feasible..there's no reason the US government gets to decide who writes open source software. and there's no reason github has to play a role here if they choose or are forced to act this way.