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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 75 points 5 days ago

What happened? Why did github block them?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 88 points 5 days ago

OrganicMaps GitHub repo was blocked due to contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 65 points 5 days ago

๐ŸŽ‰ sometimes US sanctions actually do lead to positive outcomes :)

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 days ago

the world adapts :)

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wow, I read that in the completely wrong way for a sec and wondered, why you had 38 upvotes for promoting the banning of open source contributions from certain countries.

Btw. how do we get them to do that banning for the whole of EU? Asking for a friend.

[-] Geodad@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago

Which sanctioned country? There are several of them.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 4 days ago
[-] Geodad@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that was my first guess, but I don't like to assume.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 days ago

I wasn't curious enough to look deeper.

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

Thank you. Would you mind explaining what this means please? What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?

contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 41 points 5 days ago

US likes to impose arbitrary sanctions on its adversaries. Basically the US government decided that people from a particular country aren't allowed to collaborate with people using US based platforms like GitHub.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanctions

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

The US has been punishing open source contributors from countries they don't like.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago
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