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The only thing Iran is guilty of is insufficient deference to US hegemony. Any other charge you levy can have its equal found in our so-called allies in the region, or even the US itself.
Iran funds terrorism and is developing nuclear weapons and has a history of imperialism. Should Saudi Arabia be sanctioned too? I'd say so. Should we stop sanctioning Iran until then? no.
People should resist the temptation to defend this. 1. Blocking Iranian IPs, as opposed to accounts, is almost certainly over-compliance. Note that the vast majority of websites do not do this. Even big ones, such as Gmail, do not do this. 2. It does not speak well of the United States justice system if someone could be prosecuted for failure to block Iranian IPs. If this were required, the law should be clear. Other…
Very easy to set a geo blocker or conditional access policy and have full compliance. Exempting unique IP addresses becomes annoying, but if needed possible.
It also cuts down on the other side of the house of security related incidents, which, if your company offers a product interested by people in that state, or, has news that can be taken in a dim light, prevents ddos and other annoying things.
Not perfect, but one reason why there's 'over compliance'.
> It does not speak well of the United States justice system if someone could be prosecuted for failure to block Iranian IPs. If this were required, the law should be clear. Otherwise, the US citizens deserve not to be in fear of prosecution.
Cheap insurance, especially if you have no intentions of doing business from there.
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We should change the rules so that anything that's provided, for free, to the entire world can also be given to sanctioned countries and individuals.
Not in an era when information is the most valuable commodity. Just look at the discrepancy in patent treatment been the US and China: openness on our part can still go unrequited and be taken advantage of. No matter what we give a sanctioned county free access to, they can just bend it to their own will.
Quick note that anyone using a US based cloud provider will likely be blocking all sanctioned countries. It’s not configurable at all. It was a sticking point for us when deploying the sequel to a game I was working on. Ultimately we determined that the benefits of using the provider outweighed the benefit to users since we weren’t shipping the game there officially anyway. (With one notable exception) It still leave…
Most interesting to me: apparently when they first went public and became subject to US regulation they had to close quite a large number of customer accounts in Iran.
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Aah Pax Americana [1]. It feels so warm and cosy knowing that the benevolent regime has my butt covered. Look. I love the US (being a Mexican, I consider Mex/US relationship like a bug brother / little brother one) . But darn, it seems the pax-anericana epoch is getting weaker and weaker, and the US is just trying to cling at the last straws of influence that its left. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_American…
Can't wait to see what Pax China is going to like!
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Iran funds terrorism and is developing nuclear weapons and has a history of imperialism. Should Saudi Arabia be sanctioned too? I'd say so. Should we stop sanctioning Iran until then? no.
So does the US? Should everyone be sanctioning us?
People should resist the temptation to defend this. 1. Blocking Iranian IPs, as opposed to accounts, is almost certainly over-compliance. Note that the vast majority of websites do not do this. Even big ones, such as Gmail, do not do this. 2. It does not speak well of the United States justice system if someone could be prosecuted for failure to block Iranian IPs. If this were required, the law should be clear. Other…
With that said, most companies do not start blocking these IPs until they are either contacted by US authorities and asked to comply or via the recommendations of an audit by an outside private company.
Please do not trust what this person is saying. Remember, violating sanctions can get you a prison sentence, not just a fine.
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The only thing Iran is guilty of is insufficient deference to US hegemony. Any other charge you levy can have its equal found in our so-called allies in the region, or even the US itself.
As an Iranian, I have to say that while your last sentence might be true (Saudi Arabia sucks after all), I'd still rather live in a world where the opposing superpower would pressure my country to respect human rights and stop funding terrorism, fundamentalism, and misinformation. (See what North Korea's effective foreign immunity has brought its people.) This, of course, is hypocritical on the US part, but hypocrisy…
This is a great phrase, I'm going to borrow that and use it.