I had similar issue visiting Crimea. I was simply looking through my issues, while in holidays over there.
What happened after? your account was unblocked later?
GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
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Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice phrasing. A bit edgy and exaggerated, though. But since they are the same, I bet you can show us where the USA holds a few (at least 5 digit range) people in abduction camps, just to name one difference. Now that would be interesting.
the US prefers using drone strikes to inflict suffering, I believe
Yeah you forgot to add 'extra-judicial' to the drone strikes, breaching every international law.
Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry, I cannot reply to your post without triggering Godwin's law.
There are countries in which being gay will still cause you serious trouble. Or not agreeing with the political leadership. We are quite privileged to just assume that following the law as written (AND interpreted by the judiciary) will mostly work out alright and doesn't cause us moral dilemma. And companies consist of people, too. Is it then all of a sudden morally acceptable to build spying software so your countr…
We can all cite harmful laws, does that mean companies (and people) should be free to ignore all law?
Should US companies be free to ignore laws related to sanctions because the UAE has made being gay illegal or because political opposition in China could land you in jail? Where do you draw the line? Specifically - for a US company as is being discussed.
Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
#94If the Iranian employee logged into the Github account, isn't blocking the account exactly what the law says they should do? If all they did was apply a merge request in one of the repos then would reverting the merge and blocking the account would be enough to comply? Is there some alternative way to comply with US export restrictions? The real question here is why people even consider using US cloud companies when…
The real question is why GH blocks an Indian company and all its Indian employees (all legal and outside the US sanctions list) when an employee logs on in Iran. Does US law require application to such an extreme degree? If not, then why is GH doing it?
Because github is a company based in the USA and must comply with the law of USA. It does not matter where the customer of github is based. It would be the same with gitlab because they are based and hosted in the USA.
If you are German and USA decides to apply sancations on Germany because of NordStream2 tomorrow, well, good luck setting up your own gitlab ce...
Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not an Iranian employee. That's just someone visiting Iran and login to their GitHub account. GitHub reaction is outrageously disproportionate. They should just prevent login from Iran. They had no basis for blocking a legitimate customer in Europe based on this.
Funny how GH gets shit for what the US has as laws. I'd focus my outrage on the law, the lawmaker, and those who uphold it. GH is merely trying to go by the book/ avoid penalties, as expected.
A single person has no way of influencing this. Twisting Github's and others' arms is a great proxy. If they get flak for their handling of this, they can go argue with law makers.
Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not an Iranian employee. That's just someone visiting Iran and login to their GitHub account. GitHub reaction is outrageously disproportionate. They should just prevent login from Iran. They had no basis for blocking a legitimate customer in Europe based on this.
Funny how GH gets shit for what the US has as laws. I'd focus my outrage on the law, the lawmaker, and those who uphold it. GH is merely trying to go by the book/ avoid penalties, as expected.
The US embargo prevents doing business with Iran. Providing service in Iran would be a violation of the embargo. Blocking a whole European company not conducting business with Iran because one of its employee tried to login while there is not respecting the embargo, it's just overreach. GitHub should get flak for that in the same way Paypal regularly get flak for randomly freezing accounts.
Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
#97Why do so many in the open source community use GitHub, a closed source platform?
Do you have Gmail account? Nothing beats free service.
Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
#98Why do so many in the open source community use GitHub, a closed source platform?
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Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Block requests from Iran, display a message that connections are blocked for legal reasons. Allow account to be used when not in Iran.
Would that comply with US law?
Yes, the law does not require blocking the account globally.
It also does not require to do so without warning or clarification.
Re: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny how GH gets shit for what the US has as laws. I'd focus my outrage on the law, the lawmaker, and those who uphold it. GH is merely trying to go by the book/ avoid penalties, as expected.
A single person has no way of influencing this. Twisting Github's and others' arms is a great proxy. If they get flak for their handling of this, they can go argue with law makers.
Does that not just speak to a larger problem with the current political system that twisting the arm of a large company is the only way to affect change?