Re:GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria ...
by viraptor on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:18AM
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A lot of pages have. Or at least they don't take payments from them. Larger CDN providers will maintain "US sanctions" blacklists which you can enable with one click. A lot of companies just don't care.
Why haven't the ISPs cut off these countries?
Github has acted because github is under the control of a giant corporation, Microsoft or otherwise.
So there's a line that runs precisely from Microsoft acquisition to cutting off countries from the world's largest open source repository. It's a direct outcome of the Microsoft acquisition.