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This isn't sanctioning the govt. This is sanctioning people. The govt has billions of resources to bypass this.
I don’t think it takes “billions of resources” for a third world dictatorship to use a VPN. For the average citizen of those countries, VPNs are either illegal or more expensive than their daily wage.
“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?
This is just sad. I feel for all my open source developers in these countries. I feel for all my peers who I spent my undergrad with in Iran. These archaic laws need to be deleted. America needs to be shamed for making it so hard for people to gain skills in these countries. Companies need to be shamed for not challenging these laws.
Shame should be directed at the sanctioned govts like that of Cuba that jail or kill people for political dissent. And shame on companies that help them. These regimes are unelected or sponsor terrorism, like Iran. They must not grow. It's a bad situation all around and there is no other peaceful alternative. Crippling these govts provides them with less resources to setup extreme surveillance grids and control, like…
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.
ITAR has been in place for decades...
You seem not to see the true damages he and his team did to, for a start, transatlantic alliances.
And that this is not headed the right way for the next decade either.
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This isn't sanctioning the govt. This is sanctioning people. The govt has billions of resources to bypass this.
Economic sanctions prevent these regimes from entrenching themselves and growing. And if it didn't, the Iranian regime wouldn't be seizing ships and harassing our Navy to protest the sanctions. They work. And bad govts have crumbled using this and supportive efforts. Are you sympathetic to the underclass dissidents getting tortured and killed or the small fraction of Iranian upper-middle class elites complaining abou…
Economic prosperity brings about social change.
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Its part of Norway...
Different tax and customs jurisdiction from mainland Norway. No Norwegian government services apart from postal reach Svalbard. Mainland Norway, in contrast, has very high taxes...
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ITAR has been in place for decades...
Trump has been in place for 2 years. You seem not to see the true damages he and his team did to, for a start, transatlantic alliances. And that this is not headed the right way for the next decade either.
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ITAR has been in place for decades...
Things had been getting better though, rather than worse. When was the last time someone had to publish cryptographic software by printing it on a stack of paper?
People are only going to complain about this after normal people start going to jail.
Reminds me of a US based PC vendor(I think it was Dell or IBM) whose web site store has a check box like : I do not use this product for nuclear weapon development.
Wow! What kind of product was it? I assume it wasn’t a laptop or a general purpose server hardware.