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> I do live and work in Finland So, they are blocking based on nationality rather than on location? How do they determine a user's nationality? Do ITAR laws
by Osiris 7y ago
> I do live and work in Finland
So, they are blocking based on nationality rather than on location? How do they determine a user's nationality?
Do ITAR laws really require blocking a nationality regardless of their physical location? Would an Iranian living in the U.S. also be blocked?
- mokus 7y agoI don’t know anything about rules ghat might control blocking of accounts but, in general, US export regulations do say that conveying technology to a foreign citizen even face to face in the US is an “export”. The term for this concept is “deemed export”.
- txcwpalpha 7y agoWhere are you seeing that? Ctrl+F for "Finland" doesn't return anything for me in this article, but I do see this: > I am a software developer based in Iran as well as: > I know that I’m a resident of the sanctioned country
- bibinou 7y agoit's an embedded tweet: https://twitter.com/Farzad_YZ/status/1154640983377797120 https://twitter.com/Farzad_YZ/status/1154640983377797120
- txcwpalpha 7y agoGotcha, thanks. That embed had apparently been hidden by default due to my browser's do-not-track setting.
- jsnell 7y agoThey probably don't block on nationality as such, but on something like: - Creation IP geocodes to Iran - More than X% of the requests in last Y years came from IPs that geocode to Iran. Just blocking requests from Iranian IPs will achieve nothing except move those users to proxies and VPNs. If the lawyers have decided that there needs to be a technical solution, they probably need to go with one that's not totally trivial to work around. The alternative option would be some kind of proxy/VPN detection (which I assume Microsoft must have technology for already). But it seems particularly ill-suited for Github's business, since they must get a ton of valid traffic from datacenter IPs.