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A comment on GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea. Parent comment

Re:GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria ... by styx31 on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:02AM (#20553595)
Are you sure ?

Quoted from GitHub CEO Nat Friedman on Twitter:

> The restrictions are based on place of residence and location, not on nationality or heritage. If someone was flagged in error, they can fill out a form to get the restrictions lifted on their account within hours.

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Re:GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria ... by dijit on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:05AM (#20553616)
> Any company or national of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and the Crimea region. Export licensing of commodities or services intended for these countries is presumed denied;

Wording like this appears on the treasury documents, Google cloud and Oracles official documentation on sanctions.

I'll just link the Oracle one because ironically the one that google uses is really difficult to find:

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/export/export-regulations-...

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Re:GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria ... by jwieczorek on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:42AM (#20555073)
By that wording, who is a national of the Crimea region? Did they mean residents?
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