Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

#1

Post by pabs3 » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 1:28 PM UTC

Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access
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Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

#2

Post by doomlaser » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

> GitLab is not the only actor in this discrimination against Persian/Iranian people, we also blocked by GitHub, Docker, NPM, Google Developer, Android, AWS, Go, Kubernetes and etc.

US sanctions compliance most likely

Edit: confirmed by Gitlab: https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1312183287402512384

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

#3

Post by monkin » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

GitLab can’t do nothing about it, and whining will not help. Everything is on government level.

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

#4

Post by skrebbel » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC

doomlaser wrote: post #2

> GitLab is not the only actor in this discrimination against Persian/Iranian people, we also blocked by GitHub, Docker, NPM, Google Developer, Android, AWS, Go, Kubernetes and etc. US sanctions compliance most likely Edit: confirmed by Gitlab: https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1312183287402512384

Also, nitpick, nobody's blocking Persians. I'm not Persian but if I go to Iran I bet I'm blocked too.

I'm strongly opposed to these sanctions, and I also think GitLab should've given people notice so they could get their data out. But I'm not sure it's a good place to pull the racism card.

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 1:38 PM UTC

monkin wrote: post #3

GitLab can’t do nothing about it, and whining will not help. Everything is on government level.

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Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

#6

Post by nguyenkien » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

Why whining, just head over gitee.

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

#7

Post by toomuchtodo » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 1:41 PM UTC

nguyenkien wrote: post #6

Why whining, just head over gitee.

Or host your own GitLab instance in Iran.

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

#8

Post by sschueller » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 1:42 PM UTC

Open source code, books and knowledge should never be blocked, until we learn this we are no better than the people we are trying to "punish" with pointless and ineffective sanctions.

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

#9

Post by dogma1138 » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 1:43 PM UTC

doomlaser wrote: post #2

> GitLab is not the only actor in this discrimination against Persian/Iranian people, we also blocked by GitHub, Docker, NPM, Google Developer, Android, AWS, Go, Kubernetes and etc. US sanctions compliance most likely Edit: confirmed by Gitlab: https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1312183287402512384

Not likely but quite definitely, the price of violating US sanctions is quite high, no one wants to be at risk of being made an example of.

Depending on the actual sanctions these might not require a blanket ban on paper but in practice there is no effective way of performing sufficient KYC for every individual from Iran to comply with the sanctions even if they only target specific individuals and institutions.

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

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