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Re:GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing tra... by sneak on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:27PM (#22630742)
> We are taking the broadest possible interpretation of US sanctions law to allow as much access to GitHub as possible and we are, as far as I know, the only major vendor to offer public repo access in US-sanctioned countries like Iran, Syria, and Cuba.

Does this mean that users in sanctioned countries can create accounts and use the site noncommercially as normal, just as long as they don’t have private repos? It was my understanding that you will nuke ANY account possessed by someone from a sanctioned country.

PS: Please stop doing business with ICE.

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