I sympathize with the author, but I don't agree with the framing. > I am talking about free and open source projects that are increasingly restricting the acce

I sympathize with the author, but I don't agree with the framing. > I am talking about free and open source projects that are increasingly restricting the access of Iranian users and in the most ridiculous case, they are blocking all Iranian IPs! which, as far as I know, is not mandatory, and US law does not force companies to block IPs, but only prohibits them from providing services and trading with Iran OK. I guess these companies have lawyers telling them that to be safe they should block Iranian IPs, and they take their word over that of some Iranian programmer. And what is the alternative? To make a special version of your website for Iran, minus everything that could be thought of as providing a service? The blame for this should fall squarely on the sanctions.