New blockages emerge on GitHub to developers from US-sanctioned countries.
The developer Anatoliy Kashkin has been informed by GitHub of the service limitation in his account argued for the blocking of control regulations imposed by the United States.
Github hosted his website, a game management tool that he kept called GameHub, but when trying to access his website there was a 404, Kashkin could not access his repositories, he discovered that they were disabled due to the restrictions of the commercial controls law from the USA UU.
The detection capacity is also a very important factor. I don't think many people find GameHub on a self hosted server somewhere, and I don't think many of them report problems there either. "- says Kashkin
According to Iranian developer Parham Alvani, GitHub restrictions occurred without prior notice, denying them the possibility of carrying out their projects.
GitHub used to be an open and free platform for everyone, but has decided to restrict Iranian accounts from contributing and being part of the open source ecosystem. Although we understand that GitHub could make this decision under pressure from the US government. UU. Waiting for a more respectful action from GitHub. "- Parham Alvani
Alvani also pointed out several open source projects of Iranian developers are affected by the restrictions. A larger list of them is available here.
It is a hot topic despite the restrictions that were already made before the purchase of GitHub by Microsoft.
A movement has also emerged to demonstrate at https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us
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