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I'm a bit confused here - how are people under Iranian jurisdiction going to use GitHub anyway? Isn't this against GitHub ToS, given Iran's status as a country that's under international sanctions?
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> 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. He is using a language that was mainly developed by Israeli and has Israeli on its core team, this is a flimsy excuse not to merge a PR. Laravele itself probably already has Israeli contributors too…
In these cases often optics matter more than facts. Using something common that has some israelian authors? Probably fine. Personally accepting a contribution from someone with a very israelian sounding name? Possibly treason, I would want to take chances.
What do you think is going to happen to that story relayed on hackernews and reddit? This developer by doing so has made himself a target of the Iranian governement already which is going to check how much "Israeli code" this developer relies on, just by looking at the composer.json dependency file. What chances are you talking about again?
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 #…
To be fair, who knows what the 'thumbs down' emoji is meant to represent in context and probably varies from each person who flagged it as such. It could mean 'boo maintainer', or it could be 'boo to the law and circumstance'. It's just an emoji.
>I dare you to do a single tiny transaction with Iran or an Iranian citizen which would be in violation of unilateral sanctions
Yeah. That's the reality. Like you imply, it's not the maintainer's fault. He's just trying to do the best he can in a situation that he doesn't control. Just as an American would if they found themselves in a situation that could intentionally be interpreted as breaking sanctions.
>you'd see how you'll get a taste of freedom and liberty and some prison time to sweeten the deal by US.
I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, though you are overstating it. There is plenty of blame to go around, but let's not absolve Iran of their responsibility in getting getting themselves to a place of direct conflict with the United States. After all, there are a lot of non-democratic/authoritarian nations that do not, in fact, have these kinds of sanctions placed on them. Since the Iranian revolution, the Iranian government has been following a path of direct confrontation with the United States and this is the end-result - their economy and people (like yourself) have been hurt through their policies, while United States is fine.
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1. Torturing is illegal and prohibited by constitution in Iran. A single sign of torture can easily make a judge dismiss the trial. Although this was not the case pre revolution era (where the Shah, head of state was a US and west puppet). A private company restricting its service to a certain nationalities is clearly racist. What would a private repo would do ? Hide the secret nuclear weapon design system in a US co…
>1. Torturing is illegal and prohibited by constitution in Iran. A single sign of torture can easily make a judge dismiss the trial. uhh... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24365648
The same protests that was caused by US to make civil unrest and riot to topple the government
I'm sure the "anonymous" sources have a lot of hard evidence to say he has been tortured. The same kind of evidence (excel files) they provided to show Iranian death over COVID19 were many times more than official numbers
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So is US. Last time I checked it was not possible for an outsider (third party candidate) to participate in US election. Forgot about outsider, look what they did to Bernie Sanders. Both 2016 and 2020. Should I explain more? Let alone third party candidates like Jill Stein. You have really bought the brand of bs the media is selling you don’t you?
Which religious council did Bernie have to be approved by? Or was it a political party? Your analogy is off base.
Noam Chomsky
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Doesn't change that people will be able to use this against him in the future, perhaps violently.
> Doesn't change that people will be able to use this against him in the future, perhaps violently. The Iranian government already has a case against him then, he is using PHP and committing code on github.
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> the supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate doesn't always win Candidates for president must be "approved" by the Guardian Council. Supreme leader hand picks half of the Guardian Council, the other half is selected by Majlis. But majlis nominees are "approved" by the guardian council. The circular dependency was seeded by supreme leader. If A = B & B = C Then A = C. He hand picks the nominees for presiden…
So is US. Last time I checked it was not possible for an outsider (third party candidate) to participate in US election. Forgot about outsider, look what they did to Bernie Sanders. Both 2016 and 2020. Should I explain more? Let alone third party candidates like Jill Stein. You have really bought the brand of bs the media is selling you don’t you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
I don't understand this baseless whataboutism to defend a dictatorship.
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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. Vote, for the love of god and your own mothers.