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So the consens is that many companies are doing this because of sanctions by the US. What about cloudflare? They are responsible for more and more of the inter
by tpetry 6y ago
So the consens is that many companies are doing this because of sanctions by the US.
What about cloudflare? They are responsible for more and more of the internet‘s traffic. And even if you are a non-us company and have servers not in the US many people use cloudflare because of its ddos protection. Does cloudflare block these countries too as they are an american company despite you not being a us company.
- judge2020 6y agoIt might be over-compliance on GCP’s part, or it might not be. The DOJ isn’t currently prosecuting companies for not complying with sanctions, but that doesn’t mean they won’t decide tomorrow to hit every big US website that doesn’t block Iran IPs by default. The law certainly isn’t clear on where in the OSI model you’re supposed to stop doing business with Iran traffic. Maybe even IX’s are liable if they route traffic that are from Iranian IPs.
- arp242 6y agoOne difference is that Cloudflare doesn't directly do business with you if you visit a website that's using cloudflare, whereas signing up for GitLab (or cloudflare, for that matters) means entering in a legal agreement. I'd have to look at the exact text of the sanctions to see if providing service like cloudflare is a violation, but it's not really the same thing as having an account.