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“GitHub.com may not be used for purposes prohibited under applicable export control laws, including purposes related to the development, production, or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or long range missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles.“ So anybody developing any kind of drone and hosting on github is breaking the law?
How feasible is for Github to create an EU organization, which is effectively mirror of github.com? So all commits, issues,... are cloned in both. But .eu usage is not governed by US law. Also, repos can be blacklisted from .com/.eu based on rules.
That's a good reminder that, given the slight deterioration of the USA strategic/diplomatic stability in the past few years, using any US-based services without a strictly non-US backup is like playing poker. And it happens we're a lot to play poker here.
How feasible is for Github to create an EU organization, which is effectively mirror of github.com? So all commits, issues,... are cloned in both. But .eu usage is not governed by US law. Also, repos can be blacklisted from .com/.eu based on rules.
Svalbard has zero VAT and expenditure taxes, natural cooling and very few trading sanctions.
“GitHub.com may not be used for purposes prohibited under applicable export control laws, including purposes related to the development, production, or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or long range missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles.“ So anybody developing any kind of drone and hosting on github is breaking the law?
Basically yes.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Svalbard has zero VAT and expenditure taxes, natural cooling and very few trading sanctions.
Its part of Norway...
Mainland Norway, in contrast, has very high taxes...
> Travel in these regions may impact your account status,... ?!?@!
I believe Slack did this too; if you've ever signed-in to Slack within a country that is currently restricted, your account was just deleted without warning.
> Travel in these regions may impact your account status,... ?!?@!
If you travel to a Forbidden Zone, find they block wireguard, and don't have time to set up obfsproxy, that's a much more straightforwardly manageable outcome than being arbitrarily messed with after your return.
This page doesn't appear to have a date on it. Is this something new that GitHub is doing? If so, is this Microsoft's influence we're seeing?
These rules are so stupid and actually hurts no one but the poor individual developer, a few years ago I used to live in Syria before the events. I had to find 3rd party mirrors or VPNs for the stupidest shit... like Nvidia graphics driver, adobe flash player, Java runtime and silly stuff like that, some ISPs had public download pages where you can find these general utilities most of it was outdated but does the job…
This is a glib take on US sanctions regardless of whether you feel US sanctions are appropriate. Sanctions are just a weapon, they're not supposed to specifically ban things that are useful to terrorists. It doesn't matter if terrorists use Adobe flash player or not. What matters is that the bans make life worse for Syrian people and their government. Clearly, it's working, because even savvy Syrian developers have to scramble to find illegal/unofficial 3rd party mirrors and VPNs to access basic downloads which, even if it "does the job", can be severely outdated. Enough of a problem that you're coming to this forum and complaining about it.