[alireza94]

Well, this sounds bad.

A few months ago GitHub banned access of Iranian developers (and devs who live in a few other countries) to private repositories and gists and now, with actions like this, even if it's by accident, they are threatening our chance of collaboration to public open-source repos because maintainers would be afraid that if they accept our contribution they may face consequences.

[dsl]

> maintainers would be afraid that if they accept our contribution they may face consequences

But that isn't a result of GitHub's actions, if anything they are trying to protect maintainers by blocking Iranian contributions.

Sanctions are 1) implemented at a federal government level and 2) intended to make it almost impossible for the sanctioned country to get anything done. It's like not letting your kid take their Switch or iPhone with them to timeout. Yeah it sucks and makes everything awful, but that is exactly the point.

[mr_toad]

> It's like not letting your kid take their Switch or iPhone with them to timeout.

More like confiscating the entire classrooms iPhones to punish a bully. Said bully then takes his frustration out on the class as entertainment.

[luckylion]

> But that isn't a result of GitHub's actions, if anything they are trying to protect maintainers by blocking Iranian contributions.

By blocking the repository of the maintainers? Is that like "I'm just trying to keep you safe. I'm going to kill you so nobody can murder you"?

[vinay427]

No, but by blocking Iranian contributions, as you cited in your content.

Blocking the repository isn't protecting maintainers, but this comment thread is about GitHub blocking contributions from Iran as well.