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Intervenes? Where? In white house?
by akerro 7y ago
Intervenes? Where? In white house?
- tyingq 7y agoNegotiating with a non-US entity for as smooth a mirror as possible? Not sure, but resistance to stupidity isn't futile.
- giobox 7y agoWhile I’ve no familiarity with the law in this area, I’d imagine this is surely still illegal too? If one could just openly pass the business to a foreign partner it would somewhat defeat the purpose of sanctions.
- tyingq 7y agoI don't want to be the one to invoke Godwin's law, but there are ways to remain within the law and still resist in a meaningful way when the stakes are high.
- sdinsn 7y ago> when the stakes are high. The stakes are not high here.
- tyingq 7y agoThat comment deserves more detail. Blocking an entire sovereign nation from significant useful "free" information seems pretty important to me.
- sdinsn 7y agoIranian users being unable to use GitHub is an incredibly insignificant issue.
- tyingq 7y agoOy, really? Care to cede control over what portions of GitHub you're allowed to access over to me?
- dang 7y agoPlease don't add nationalistic insults to HN threads. Also, please don't post unsubstantive comments generally. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- cwyers 7y agoYeah, watching Hacker News try to violate sanctions from first principles is amusing.
- tyingq 7y agoPlease elaborate. Sanctions don't ban every effort to not be stupid. Compliance isn't condolance. "Following orders" is demonstrably not a great defense.