“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”

Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by CalChris on Thursday July 25, 2019 @09:41PM (#20531629)

Whether it is open source or not, GitHub is an American corporation (owned by Microsoft) and what it does is commercial activity.

This isn't a free speech issue. It's not even a corporate free speech issue. This is commercial activity.

Whether this is good policy or not, is another matter but it isn't a free speech matter.

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by decasteve on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:19PM (#20532088)

The Olympics and other athletic organizations support commercial activity, with many athletes coming to compete from sanctioned countries, where corporations benefit from the activity.

Seeing free/open source software in the same light ideologically is not that much of a leap. There is precedent.

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by leereeves on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:20PM (#20531828)

How did the free software movement allow a private commercial business to obtain so much power over it?

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by codetwelve on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:28PM (#20531866)

Private commercial businesses do this, they fool you with their marketing and make you think that their product is also free and open source. Github's branding and marketing are to thank. And the blame also goes to us and other developers for not seeing this.

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by acqq on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:38AM (#20533286)

Yes, the similar stories happen again and again. As a good reflection, there was that comics with the "world tiniest open source violin" https://xkcd.com/743/

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by CalChris on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:34PM (#20531903)

Freely. Or cheaply. Or maybe just conveniently. Linus is worth an estimated $150M and he has a lot of power over it. It’s a conundrum.

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by mempko on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:47PM (#20531953)

You can thank O'Reilly and friends who undermined it by creating the Open Source movement.

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