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Re:GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria ... by celticmusic on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:24AM (#20553791)
and yet, that will be less than the war in iraq.

It's github. I would personally be inconvenienced, but not terribly so. I cannot imagine their life is going to crash in some meaningful way for not having access to github.

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Re:GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria ... by tehbeard on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:31AM (#20553844)
> it's github.

Are you naive enough to think the sanction is explicitly targeted exactly at github, and not any number of services, or part of a wider economic attack?

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Re:GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria ... by celticmusic on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:09PM (#20556848)
yes, tehbeard. The takeaway from my comment should have been that I'm naive and have no idea how sanctions work, or why they're used.

That is absolutely, 100%, unequivocally, the most fair interpretation of my comment that you could have made.

I should thank you for this, really. I cannot imagine someone on the internet assuming that maybe my opinion is based upon more than ignorance and naivete.

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