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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.
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.
What's your alternative to sanctions that's more effective? War?
Respect the deal that was reached between Iran, US, and EU members.
The US unilaterally broke that, my guess is probably because the deal was reached in a pre-Trump era. Now they are deciding to further sabre rattle with sanctions.
All other parties in the deal have pretty much politely decided to ignore Trump's administration and carry on the terms of the deal.
This is more about the US administration desperately trying to look strong for their internal voters more so than actually having a plan or a coherent external policy.
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What's your alternative to sanctions that's more effective? War?
Let people live their lives?
Sanctions are not punishments. They are just a way to say – you're an asshole, and neither us nor our allies are going to play with you anymore.
GitLab can’t do nothing about it, and whining will not help. Everything is on government level.
Change your Hosting to a non US Company is what you can do.
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Or host your own GitLab instance in Iran.
GitLab (the company) are legally not permitted to export their product: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/code-of-condu... According to them, that includes downloads. So no luck there either.
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They are not whining, and GitLab could have notified them about the account suspension, and sent them a link with their archived account data to download.
No, they could not have. The law is very clear that absolutely no business activity is allowed. Source: I implemented part of the sanctions compliance for a major tech company’s platform (and saw other projects get sunset because they didn’t implement it)
Btw, doesn't blocking by IP address go beyond what is required by law, since only Iranian residents are subject to sanctions? Would preemptively restricting accounts that have logged in from an Iranian IP address and asking for proof of residence break the law?
> 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