There's a lot of misinformation in this thread, from GitHub CEO [1]: "It is painful for me to hear how trade restrictions have hurt people. We have gone to gre

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread, from GitHub CEO [1]: "It is painful for me to hear how trade restrictions have hurt people. We have gone to great lengths to do no more than what is required by the law, but of course people are still affected. GitHub is subject to US trade law, just like any company that does business in the US." "To comply with US sanctions, we unfortunately had to implement new restrictions on private repos and paid accounts in Iran, Syria, and Crimea. Public repos remain available to developers everywhere – open source repos are NOT affected." "The restrictions are based on place of residence and location, not on nationality or heritage. If someone was flagged in error, they can fill out a form to get the restrictions lifted on their account within hours. More info is on our policy page: https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-and-trade-controls https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-and-trade-control... " GitHub is just complying with US trade law, it's not just because they're a US company, any company doing business in the US also has to comply. [1] https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1155311121038864384 https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1155311121038864384