I never knew about such law. For those who have Pikachu eyes now, or whoever gave thumbs down on the maintainer comment, I dare you to do a single tiny transaction with Iran or an Iranian citizen which would be in violation of unilateral sanctions imposed by US on Iran and Iranian national globally and you'd see how you'll get a taste of freedom and liberty and some prison time to sweeten the deal by US. If there's #…
Yeap. It is only “bad” when an Iranian is doing it. When they impose sanctions to kill literally children [1] they are civil human being. 1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R0WDCYcUJ4o Update: I am not American and I have zero intention of getting into your internal business. But you should understand when it comes to politics you have to hear the other-side too. Update 2: dang why I have been flagged? Just because I d…
This whole thread I’m wondering how many respondents are American. We really have no room to talk right now.
This is disheartening but nothing new. My memory is rusty at this point, but I thought OpenBSD/OpenSSH wouldn't take crypto code from US developers when the US was still squashing all (strong) crypto code as munitions exports (more than they do now).
How does this work considering PHP is heavily made up of code from Zend (which was an Israeli company) Can Iranian-built websites not use PHP?
It has nothing do with if you can or not. It depends on if you do something to attract their negative attention. Once you're being "investigated" anything you've said or done, your entire history is up for grabs. If that's not enough, the "investigators" will create the "evidence" or find "witnesses" who can claim you've said/done horrible* things so they can quickly handle the punishment. Astute observers will see s…
> Astute observers will see some parallels with other groups.
I'm a little naive and curious about this. The examples that come to mind are HR departments I've worked with. What were you thinking of?
All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.
Iran is repressive, and fraught with problems, but it's not a dictatorship. There's a reasonably intricate bureaucracy, much of which is semi-democratic: for example, the supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate doesn't always win. The current president, Rouhani, is a moderate, and is not especially liked by the hard-liners. It's pretty crazy that your comment comparing it to North Korea and insinuating that…
Whether the civil administration is elected is irrelevant to the threat that this person faces, although to be sure, the Guardian Council dictates who is an acceptable candidate. Rouhani does not have control over the IRGC, which has engaged in a years long campaign of arrests and threats of software developers with links to the West, e.g. Arash Zad, Naranji, and, most recently, Behdad Esfahbod, among others. Once in the hands of the IRGC, neither the President nor the courts can save someone, and the facts of the case matter little -- Rouhani can't even save his own brother. One would have to be profoundly ignorant of Iranian politics and the IRGC and Iranian state media's campaign of intimidation against software developers, the startup community, and other tech figures to not understand that this is the direct result of the security apparatus's propaganda and coercion, and that this person's decision is rational based on well-founded fears -- despite being unfortunate and regrettable.
>but there's no place on Earth that's "good", just "better". I don't know what you mean by that. I get the rest, but not that.
I assume they're saying that, in an absolute sense, all systems of law are arbitrary and capricious. Some might be much better than others, but none are sufficiently fair or transparent to be "good". The extent to which you agree with that is a question of political philosophy :).
I can't say I'm well versed in this idea but if people are creating the laws they've got some motivations and trigger for the law.... I think we can evaluate those on some sort of practicality / sense of justice or other scale rather than declare them all arbitrary.
All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.
Dictatorships are scary, but they're sloppy, bad at police work and don't apply their laws consistently. May be in a western country you have to worry about whether or not you broke the letter of the law. In an authoritarian country, you have to worry about whether you made someone in power upset, or just presented an easy target for some police officials to close another case they need for their KPI — which they do absolutely heartlessly, but in the most primitive and least labour-intensive way.
So, if at some points Iranian police will start going through Github and monitor all PRs and check user's origin countries — then yes, you're in trouble. But I judging from first-hand contact with how authoritarian police operates, they almost never know English well enough to go through foreign resources. And if someone who's educated (and competent) enough to do it is after you, then you're already in great trouble anyway.
I don't think it's an acceptable state of affairs if people feel pressured to keep their nationality private.
but that's what happens in the real world when you apply to jobs, to renting houses, etc.
Are you saying in real world we hide our nationality? In what universe does your CV does not include which university you graduated from and which house owner lets you rent without a copy of your ID? Maybe it works differently in america but in the rest of the world I am pretty sure nationality is a standard thing to ask.
All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.
Iran is repressive, and fraught with problems, but it's not a dictatorship. There's a reasonably intricate bureaucracy, much of which is semi-democratic: for example, the supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate doesn't always win. The current president, Rouhani, is a moderate, and is not especially liked by the hard-liners. It's pretty crazy that your comment comparing it to North Korea and insinuating that…
OP is not wrong. It is a huge risk for the maintainer to merge the PR in it's current form or as a fork no matter how you classify the present Iranian government. Anyone knowing anything about Iran would sympathize with the maintainer.
All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.
Iran is repressive, and fraught with problems, but it's not a dictatorship. There's a reasonably intricate bureaucracy, much of which is semi-democratic: for example, the supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate doesn't always win. The current president, Rouhani, is a moderate, and is not especially liked by the hard-liners. It's pretty crazy that your comment comparing it to North Korea and insinuating that…
Iran isn't a dictatorship, but it does issue the death penalty for quite minor offenses. Iranians have been sentenced to death for protesting, for drinking, for adultery.