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Odd? Image you're a Github. There are thousands of paying accounts in Russia and also a zillion Russians contributing to open-source projects. Now imagine all

by stemc43 12y ago

Odd? Image you're a Github. There are thousands of paying accounts in Russia and also a zillion Russians contributing to open-source projects. Now imagine all these people now have no access and start sending emails asking why their paid accounts now aren't working? Russian devs working on tight schedule, forereigners working in Russia, subs doing contracts for american companies - now all of them are DENIED. Would it really be better for github to continue blocking all those innocent people because of a clearly a set-up type suicide-notes post?

tokenizerrr 12y ago
That wasn't my point at all. What I meant: I, as an European, notice content is blocked for me every time America requests a block on GitHub. Now I hear about Russia request a block on content, and it seems that only Russians are blocked but I am not. This caused me to wonder why America got to decide what everyone in the world can access, yet Russia only gets to decide for their own country. The other replies to my comment probably got it right, with GitHub being based in the US.