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While 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 partn
by giobox 7y ago
While 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.