Time to fix the protocols of Cyberspace.
HTTP and other centralized protocols are the weapon of choice of the powerful players: large corporations and states.
“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
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Re: “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
> arresting people for saying something the powers don't like You just described what's happening in the UK or Canada. Yet, I give it, neither have "free speech", but moral point remain that what happened in the USSR is happening today in the western world.
We have hate crime laws in the UK under which you can get arrested for making statements which are grossly offensive towards someone's ethnicity, creed etc... . That's vastly different from arresting people for criticising the government.
Those laws don't define what grossly offensive is. And that's the problem - it's subject to interpretation. Anything than can be abused will be abused one day.
Re: “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
#313Thank you GitHub, thank you Microsoft and thank you U.S. for all the love you bestow upon people.
Not thanks to Russia for the occupation?
Please, let's look at the facts. Here we have a case where the population of the territory in question would in no way describe this state of affairs as an occupation. They did vote in favour of Crimea becoming part of Russia and the international objections have to do with legal concerns, not the well-being of the population (with, at most, an exception of some Crimean Tatars, but they're a small minority). So, the U.S. are effectively punishing the people of Crimea for voting the way they did. Is that a good policy? I don't think so, it will only give boost to anti-Americanism. If it's about targetting the economy of Crimea as a whole, then I don't think that will work, since Russia has been subsidizing it the whole time at a grand scale, and Russia together with some European states will find a way around it (we have seen that with the Siemens turbines, for example). Moreover, moves like this will only give fuel to the project of building a sovereign Internet that the Russian government has been pushing forward.
Re: “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
Russia will give it back? They are still occupying parts of Georgia.
Eventually. Voluntarily with reparations or after Russian state collapse.
That’s like saying most of Eastern Europe wasn’t part of the Soviet Union. They were just occupied by Soviets for a time. It’s true in an abstract way but not factual.
Re: “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
#315I would think VPN solve this problem?
Re: “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It seems like the US has become what the USSR was Yep... thats my cue to get off hackernews
>> It seems like the US has become what the USSR was > Yep... thats my cue to get off hackernews Surely Fox News will be happy to have you back.
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Re: “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only illogic is that is not having Russia to a similar degree while doing so. The point of the sanctions is to give an extra cost to their ambitions and limit the growth in power of the targetted entries.
Why Russia's ambitions are less legitimate than American ones?
The US is not morally or legally obligated to support or enable Russian ambitions and has the right, as a sovereign nation, to react to actions against their interest.
Re: “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
#318I'm glad that US is pressing in this. Five years since Crimea happened, it's still cut off Russia in terms of business – all the major companies won't touch it with a ten-feet pole exactly because of sanctions. It's a sad state of affairs for people who still live there, but a good precedent for the world peace, showing that this annexation will not be normalized.
> for people who still live there
You're making it sound as if people were suffering and running away from there. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but the net migration is positive and rising.
Companies like Siemens are doing business there. For now, they have to pretend that they don't even know about it, but that is going to change too as the U.S. continue to lose their hegemony in Europe.
Re: “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discussion is about US government which punishing Russian government by applying restrictions, US companies just follow the law, they don't have any other choice. When governments fight, people suffer.
> which punishing Russian government They obviously don't "punish the Russian government" when they prevent the people living in Crimea contributing to the open source project.
US government doesn't know if people who access github will contribute, or just take and use including military and government applications.
Re: “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
#320sanctions like these only alienate (otherwise mostly pro-democracy) people from US/West. Do impose sanctions on individuals who are associated with the rules of undemocratic regimes. But punishing whole populations (especially if they don’t have a democratic voice in the matter) is dumb and immoral.
Especially when they democratically voted in favour of being part of Russia. This is essentially a punishment for them for voting the way they did.