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In 2019 "GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20552797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id

• throwaway290 4y ago
  The fact is that currently Github's limitation does not preclude committing & collaboration, just paid features (sponsoring, copilot). For the time being Microsoft lawyers are OK with it, but not sure for how long.
  • throwaway290 4y ago
    To clarify, I did not blame Microsoft. IIRC, US government sanctions target specific businesses and individuals in Russia, not all residents of Russia. (They do, and for reasons I cannot fathom, target all residents of Crimea and Ukrainian territories under control of separatists.) Since no one can truly vet every single user for involvement with sanctioned entities, in the end it is about specific businesses and their legal teams, how they interpret the sanctions. Some businesses chose to preventively block anyone they suspected of physically being in Russia. They, however, accepted a proof of residence (which those who were lucky to escape and live in another country could generally produce). Microsoft, in what to me personally is the first, doesn't. If this becomes the mainstream interpretation of sanctions globally, I imagine many will have to give up and move back to Russia.
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