> People should resist the temptation to defend this. You yourself are defending these ludicrous sanctions to some extent: > 1. Blocking Iranian IPs, as oppos

> People should resist the temptation to defend this. You yourself are defending these ludicrous sanctions to some extent: > 1. Blocking Iranian IPs, as opposed to accounts, is almost certainly over-compliance. So blocking Iranian IPs is fine? If you tell me "but GitLab is in the US, it has to" - it chose to base itself in the US only after apparently having previously being based elsewhere. With the way things stand, it is unreasonable for an online universal service provider, with individual user accounts, to operate from the US - similarly to how it should not operate out of China or Turkey (where restrictions are even stronger). Anyway... > Summary: Gitlab should grow a pair, and Americans should ask themselves if this kind of legal uncertainty is desirable. Most people in the US are barely aware of international affairs. This comes to mind from a few years back: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/07/the-less-americans-know-about-ukraines-location-the-more-they-want-u-s-to-intervene/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/0... > Finally, legal effort to make websites inaccessible in Iran is entirely incompatible with being taken seriously when complaining about internet freedom in Iran. You're mistaken. The US is not taken seriously on the merit of its arguments (and probably hasn't been for a couple of centuries already); it is taken seriously due to its ability to exert military and economic pressure.