GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

Re:GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing tra... by piokoch on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:58AM (#22636105)

Fun fact. My friend works in a bank. In this bank its account has a factory that produces curtains. Now, curtain in Polish is "firana", and any time those guys are doing a bank transfer it is thrown into some kind of lengthy manual processing mode because company name contains dreaded word "iran".

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Re:GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing tra... by gertrunde on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:14AM (#22636157)

Seems crazy that the "Scunthorpe Problem" still rears its head after probably more than 25 years. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem]

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Re:GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing tra... by thdespou on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:44AM (#22636291)

History repeats itself

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Re:GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing tra... by neotek on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:21PM (#22643688)

We had to remove products containing any and all references to Cuba and Egypt from our Shopify store to avoid PayPal suspending our account. All of the products are American made, produced in the US with local ingredients. For example, a raw flavour compound called “Cubano Style” or an eliquid brand called “The Great Pyramids” (fictional examples but in line with the real products.)

Only the thing was that PayPal wouldn’t actually confirm exactly what was triggering their automated system, we had to infer that ourselves by looking for commonalities between the flagged payments. Even when we identified the problem they refused to give any confirmation at all other than to re-enable our account.

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