Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access • Hacker News Board

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

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Post by DetroitThrow » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

Kranar wrote: post #343

DetroitThrow wrote: post #326

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>Prominent examples disagree with you. Gmail for example. They even allow accounts! Now maybe Google wants to argue that Gmail qualifies for the personal communication tools exception. But wait, GitHub doesn't block Iranian IPs either! They allow free accounts as well! Call in the feds! Both Google and Github block accounts by Iranian IPs, and this is easily verifiable if you know anyone who lives in Iran and can acc…

>Personal Gmail accounts are the exception to Google services available in Iran, and some functionality is also blocked by IP - if you live in Iran currently you might know that almost all other Google services and enterprise accounts are outright blocked by IP too: Google services in Iran are not blocked by Google or the U.S., they are blocked by Iran. It's the Iranian regime that seeks to block the use of things li…

Google is also blocking many services endpoints by IP; try to switch to your enterprise Gmail account when using Gmail in any city in Iran.

Iran is not blocking anything on GSuite here.

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

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Post by DetroitThrow » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 12:55 AM UTC

miracle2k wrote: post #336

DetroitThrow wrote: post #325

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>You are quoting a very specific claim. That big providers such as Gmail and GitHub do not block Iranian IPs. Are you saying they do? Yes I am saying they block accounts by Iranian IPs, and this is easily verifiable if you know anyone who lives in Iran and can access a website - attempting to use Github functionality for anything other than viewing repositories right now is currently blocked, and enterprise accounts…

So, I responded to you in another thread above. You seem to agree that Github is allowing Iranian IPs to browse the website, as well as have accounts to work on OpenSource projects. These are things Gitlab is not doing. Not sure where your disagreement is then.

When you describe the "big providers" such as Gmail or GitHub as allowing Iranian IPs, but they only do so on endpoints for personal use. GSuite, the same thing as Gmail and using the same address for most aspects, have IP blocked endpoints.

This is where the misinformation is: many providers outright block Iranian IPs and in the other thread I linked you to services who do just that.

Just because the most well funded consumer facing personal services don't outright IP block or account block doesn't mean it's not standard for everyone with a tighter budget.

Re: Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

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Post by f6v » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 5:07 PM UTC

bigbubba wrote: post #199

trhway wrote: post #180

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they voted wrong way.

I'm under the impression that nobody but Russian state media claims that election was legitimate.

Ah yes, the legitimacy. I don't think it means what it's implied to mean. The USA do many illegitimate things and no-one bats an eye.