If this is not dictatorship, I don't know what is dictatorship then. The Iranian regime or the CCP regime are like ticking bombs on this planet. You have no idea how ridiculous they can be.
Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, one more comment in the page reads very naive: > Let the problem be until it escalates to GitHub's (Microsoft) management to find a proper way to deal with this. If MS management gets wind of this, I fear the most likely outcome would be "Thanks for bringing this to our attention! By being an Iranian citizen, this account violated our TOS. This account is now permanently closed."
Yeah that was me (I had also created an earlier HN thread about it -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24360801 ). I know it's written with a smile, but being serious for a second, it won't happen since sanctions on Iran only apply to the public sector, or perhaps companies, but certainly not individuals.
"GitHub restricts developer accounts based in Iran, Crimea, and other countries under US sanctions"
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/29/8934694/github-us-trade-s...
Accounts from such nations have their functionality restricted, commercial use in any form is not allowed.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Whataboutism" is not an argument, and neither are vague innuendos.
I was specifically responding to a comment talking about the 2020 primaries, and I talked about the 2020 primaries. It's really an amazing system we have. The government and media tell you how free you are and how wicked all these other people are, and everyone just eats it up. Anyone who questions is ostracized and sidelined. Way more effective than a brute dictatorship.
Again, dragging another system entirely into the conversation is non sequitur.
Also, I just find it interesting you feel compelled to defend a dictatorship.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. There is a difference between jailing/torturing someone and a private company restricting its user base. 2. Countries have the right to have trade sanctions towards other countries. Does US abuse its rights some times? Absolutely. But does not make it not their right.
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…
> Torturing is illegal
"Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity of judges and prosecutors, a catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, against those detained in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019, said Amnesty International in a damning new report published today."[0]
[0] - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/iran-detainee...
Edit: This report came out Sept 2nd, 2020.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was specifically responding to a comment talking about the 2020 primaries, and I talked about the 2020 primaries. It's really an amazing system we have. The government and media tell you how free you are and how wicked all these other people are, and everyone just eats it up. Anyone who questions is ostracized and sidelined. Way more effective than a brute dictatorship.
Again, dragging another system entirely into the conversation is non sequitur . Also, I just find it interesting you feel compelled to defend a dictatorship.
It's a comparison of different methods of social control. An interesting conversation, IMO at least.
"Bad guys bad!" is much less interesting, especially when it's only the bad guys you've been told to hate.
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#206I lived in Syria before the war and stuff, even back in 2010, because of the US export laws Syrians were banned from downloading the most basic shit like Java runtime, adobe flash player, and Nvidia gpu drivers, Skype, Messengers like Yahoo etc... This type of internet "stupidity" is in every government DNA lol
>US export laws Syrians were banned from downloading the most basic shit like Java runtime
That's still the case for many encryption products from Oracle. You have to register and sign T&C which say you will not export this .jar to a banned country. It's been like this since I remember... 2005 maybe?
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#207Hope this guy gets out of Iran ASAP.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who's being passive-aggressive? The Iranian guy added commits to the PR, it seems he was going to merge it and realised he probably shouldn't
> I hope one day your country removes this restriction, just like my country has never put such restrictions. This reads to me as passive-aggressive To add insult, a superficial search for Iran sanctions show that Israel is pushing hard for US sanctions on Iran [0][1] So even if Israel hasn't sanctioned Iran, they sure seem to want the US as a proxy sanctionner [0]( https://www.haaretz.com/misc/tags/TAG-iran-sanction…
Hi, PR author here,
Israel has never restricted private individuals from collaborating on open source with Iranians (afaik).
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#209Edit: Sorry I completely misread it. I thought he said just "merged" it instead of encouraging "merge" it. Still interesting to learn about Behdad though, cool stuff about localization and language support. Interestingly merged by Behdad Esfahbod who is also iranian. He was even arrested by the iranian government in the past > Esfahbod claims that he was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps intelligence ech…
Behdad used to post on an Israeli LUG message board nearly 20 years ago! I completely forgot about it but his name rang a bell now, and I went and looked at the archives.
https://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=behdad&l=linux-il%40cs...
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
>or whoever gave thumbs down on the maintainer comment 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…
From maintainer prospective he has gotten thumb down, whether it's "boo to to maintainer or to the law". That may not be the actual case but the majority of people surprised here clearly shows they're not aware or don't want to see the other side of the table. I agree, Iran is really threatening US: https://lipstick-and-war-crimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/... how Iran dares to put the country next to US military b…
You're throwing the kitchen sink and arguing against the current reality. Sure. You can do that if you want. But whether you or I dislike the current state of things, the reality is that things are the way they are. United States exists in the present form, with alliances in the middle-east and as a nation-state Iran can choose to engage with it through confrontation or not. Iran has chosen consistently to do it with through confrontation. Iran can't control United States, and they can't control our present reality, but they can control how they conduct themselves. And they are choosing a path of confrontation.
>Umm, how about Iran and US cooperation to topple Taliban government ? Wasn't that a token of "deescalation", that ended for Iran being called "Axis of Evil" by George W. Bush.
You're under the mistaken impression that all nations are equal before the law and it seems to you unfair that America is able to do things that Iran is not. The problem is that there is no universal inter-nation law, or a global constitution. At the nation level it's all ad-hoc realpolitik and hegemony and geopolitical interests - as has been the case since the civilization begun. You can continue raging against the unfairness of it all (and I may even agree), just as Iranian government is doing - but in the end, things are the way things are, and the only entity that is hurt by Iranian actions is Iran and its people.
And it's not just America that has issues with Iran, by the way. Until very recently Iran has been under broad international sanctions. The recent normalization of relationship (implicit and explicit) between various Arab-states and Israel is a direct response to Iran as well. Think about it, even though there continues to be tension between Arab states and Israel, they are all willing to put that aside because they view Iran as a greater threat.
So tell me, how is that when you take all this in, and see that it is pretty much just Iran that is treated as piranha, not just by United States, but also by the entire region, how is it that you don't think they share any responsibility for conducting their policies in a way that got them to the place they are presently in - under sanctions, with no friends. You can blame America for that. You can say it's unfair. But it is the way it is.