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Unless you live in a place like Iran or Crimea.
by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Unless you live in a place like Iran or Crimea.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoMost of us don’t.
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoMy point is that it sucks to discriminate against people just based on where they live. One day you're in Sevastopol working remotely for some company that uses GitHub. The next day some politicians decided your in a "bad" place and your permanently banned. It sucks, and hopefully it won't happen to you or me, but it totally could.
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- ARandomerDude 6y agoYou act like this is arbitrary. "Politicians" with radically opposed worldviews, and from multiple countries, have endorsed this policy, including all recent presidents. If you live in Iran, not having GitHub is a problem, but not your biggest one.
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- fossuser 6y agoThese are international government sanctions - the companies cannot choose to ignore them without severe consequences.
- lonelappde 6y agoSure, but that's a consequence of international war. The war (and the warmongers) is your main problem. The rest are a large pile of details. When the tanks roll in I'm not worried about my GitHub issues.
- komali2 6y agoThis comment, perhaps unintentionally, does imply that the people in those countries deserve less, are less than, us. That's a morally reprehensible position to take, imo. Is that your position? Are you aware of that implication behind your comment?
- lkbm 6y agoNo, the comment implies that risks that only apply to people in two countries don't apply to people not in those countries. This doesn't in any way suggest they deserve less or that their risk is morally irrelevant. Simply that the risk to them is not something I need to factor into the risk assessment of my own account.
- zapttt 6y agoshhhh. silicon valey doesn't know there's life past berkley.
- moron4hire 6y agoThat one isn't Github's "fault", though. That's going to happen if you use any service incorporated in the US.
- dmos62 6y agoWhy is that? Is private business obligated to follow host country's foreign policy? My instinct is to hold the business responsible for these decisions.
- eythian 6y agoSometimes, yes. If the host's country's government applies sanctions to your country, they may have to stop allowing you to use their services.
- afarrell 6y agoYes, a private business is obligated to follow the laws of any country where they hold assets that can be seized by the police of that country.
- dmos62 6y agoCensorship is a law in US now? Or, are you saying that it's law to follow its foreign policy? In that case you sure have a round-about way of saying that.
- freeone3000 6y agoThe Trading with the Enemy Act empowers the Office of Foreign Asset Control to come down very hard (million-dollar fines and years of jail time) on anyone dealing with a sanctioned nation (N.Korea, Iran, Cuba) or anyone on the list of Specially Designated Persons and Nationals. This is absolutely the law, yes.
- dmos62 6y agoThe accounts were closed because they were business accounts from sanctioned countries? I didn't realise that. I had misunderstood that Github was enforcing the said countries' censorship.