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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by toomuchtodo on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:05AM (#23059058)
Most of us don’t.
Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by PopeDotNinja on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:14AM (#23059100)
My point is that it sucks to discriminate against people just based on where they live. One day you're in Sevastopol working remotely for some company that uses GitHub. The next day some politicians decided your in a "bad" place and your permanently banned. It sucks, and hopefully it won't happen to you or me, but it totally could.
Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by ARandomerDude on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:55AM (#23059359)
You act like this is arbitrary. "Politicians" with radically opposed worldviews, and from multiple countries, have endorsed this policy, including all recent presidents.

If you live in Iran, not having GitHub is a problem, but not your biggest one.

Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by fossuser on Sunday May 03, 2020 @01:37PM (#23060534)
These are international government sanctions - the companies cannot choose to ignore them without severe consequences.
Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by lonelappde on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:30PM (#23060903)
Sure, but that's a consequence of international war.

The war (and the warmongers) is your main problem. The rest are a large pile of details. When the tanks roll in I'm not worried about my GitHub issues.

Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by komali2 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:41PM (#23061308)
This comment, perhaps unintentionally, does imply that the people in those countries deserve less, are less than, us. That's a morally reprehensible position to take, imo. Is that your position? Are you aware of that implication behind your comment?
Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by lkbm on Sunday May 03, 2020 @04:50PM (#23061750)
No, the comment implies that risks that only apply to people in two countries don't apply to people not in those countries. This doesn't in any way suggest they deserve less or that their risk is morally irrelevant. Simply that the risk to them is not something I need to factor into the risk assessment of my own account.