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I guess the US is afraid that terrorists may develop weapons using Adobe flash player xD
This is a glib take on US sanctions regardless of whether you feel US sanctions are appropriate. Sanctions are just a weapon, they're not supposed to specifically ban things that are useful to terrorists. It doesn't matter if terrorists use Adobe flash player or not. What matters is that the bans make life worse for Syrian people and their government. Clearly, it's working, because even savvy Syrian developers have to scramble to find illegal/unofficial 3rd party mirrors and VPNs to access basic downloads which, even if it "does the job", can be severely outdated. Enough of a problem that you're coming to this forum and complaining about it.
> GitHub.com may not be used for purposes prohibited under applicable export control laws, including purposes related to the development, production, or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or long range missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles.
Not only is this sentence an affront to the English language, but I hope you aren't trying to develop any drone software on GitHub...
Don't forget the old iTunes TOS.
I've been sounding the alarm bells about ITAR, DFARS, EAR compliance for a while now! None of the software vendors I've talked to seem to understand that it is AGAINST THE LAW to upload customer supplied IP to their super-secure Cloud based product that they're trying to get me to switch too. "The lowest TCO, you'll get ROI in 6 months!"
Ya, but are you compliant with NIST 800-171 requirements?
"Ohhh, uhhh... I don't know. I'll ask the engineering team but I'm sure we're fine!"
Ya, ok.
I suspect people will now complain that github does this but <x new service> does not :)
And it happens we're a lot to play poker here.
You seem not to see the true damages he and his team did to, for a start, transatlantic alliances.
And that this is not headed the right way for the next decade either.
I feel for all my peers who I spent my undergrad with in Iran.
These archaic laws need to be deleted. America needs to be shamed for making it so hard for people to gain skills in these countries. Companies need to be shamed for not challenging these laws.
Why is this even a point? Would you be happy if I took away your kids future by pointing out however many fucked up things your country has done?
?!?@!
If you travel to a Forbidden Zone, find they block wireguard, and don't have time to set up obfsproxy, that's a much more straightforwardly manageable outcome than being arbitrarily messed with after your return.
So anybody developing any kind of drone and hosting on github is breaking the law?
The sanctioned countries and regions fall even further behind and open source developers have to deal with the fallout of America's broken foreign policy.
AFAIK its probably not illegal to run your own Git/SVN server...
> On which countries and territories are U.S. government sanctions applied?
> Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria.
Crimea? Isn't that part of Russia now, so what is the point of sanctions against Crimea? To affect Crimean policy wouldn't they need to sanction Russia, not Crimea?
So you can take a ship with X to Russia proper, but not to Crimea. Or you can work with a Russian bank, but not a Russian bank based in Crimea.
It's like how Hong Kong is considered a separate territory, despite being a part of China.
People are only going to complain about this after normal people start going to jail.
On the other hand there is no accountability in Iran, Russia, or Syria. Russia just straight up annexed Crimea. And Putin is still in power and popular among Russians. Assad still hasn't held more than a single election in 5 decades. Again, the Bushs are out because of Iraq. And Afghanistan (that sheltered terrorist Al Queda) has a trillions in USD in rare earth deposits, yet we buy from China almost exclusively. China is not our friend anymore. We don't even own Iraqi oil.
Sanctions are just. And Nazis, Imperial Japan, and the Soviets were once embargoed, and they would be running an impoverished world today, if not for the US-led efforts. To the contrary, world GDP has increased many fold and US inventions, like the internet, lift billions out of poverty and into the drivers seats of their futures. Defeated former foes in Japan, Germany, even Russia, et all, and the defended like South Korea are doing fabulously after wisely focusing on building instead of launching an insurgency (after losing) because of "Death to Israel and the Great Satan" or whatever. Shame on the insurgents for plunging Iraq into disarray.
I have no idea what you're talking about with Palestine. The Palestine Authority pays million of dollars (from billions in US aid) a year to the families of terrorists (the longer the prison sentence, the more they pay), like someone that goes into a jewish house and stabs the entire family to death. Iran also supports terrorist Palestinian Hamas. Again, a lot of complaining and little building. Sanctions would come off if they stopped strapping on suicide vests because "Death to Israel".
Is our republic perfect? No. But more people have immigrated here than anywhere in history. We still take in more immigrants than anywhere else. And families that refuse to wait in line, risk their lives to cross desserts to wind up in temporary detention centers for a few a weeks just to get a residency court date. We have a Muslim Somali immigrant woman that's elected into Congress, and routinely disrespects our ally Israel and even the US. She is not in prison because of our freedoms. How many immigrant Jewish Americans are elected in Somalia?
Which country are you from?
In fact this was a drive for some of Cygnus' overseas offices: not to evade the law but to do development that could not be spoiled by accidentally exposing it to a person subject to export control laws. Stupidly, we could import that software into the States, but people there couldn't fix bugs in it, only file reports.
If you wanted to reach, you could say that anything that helps guide a vehicle to its destination is control technology, then apply that to something that flies and you're immediately under Aerospace.
Mainland Norway, in contrast, has very high taxes...
The govt has billions of resources to bypass this.
For the average citizen of those countries, VPNs are either illegal or more expensive than their daily wage.
Economic prosperity brings about social change.