> You are making a strawman. Companies are often following the law strictly or loosely as it suits them. You're right that companies don't always obey the law.

> You are making a strawman. Companies are often following the law strictly or loosely as it suits them. You're right that companies don't always obey the law. However, what has that got to do with "Personally, I'd rather a world where companies obey the law"? My point is that companies SHOULD obey the laws, not that they always do - and that - allowing and encouraging companies to pick and choose the laws they are going to obey is wrong, and will simply not end well. > GitHub could have warned the company before blocking and/or blocked access only from Iran. It did neither. I'm not familiar enough with the specifics of the US laws regarding Iran to know if this is a lawful course of action to take upon a customer attempting to use your products/services from Iran. Maybe they could have? Maybe they can't? I've no idea & I've made no attempt to address anything other than the "It's alright to blame people for lawfully following harmful laws" comment.