After a developer based in the Crimea region of Ukraine was blocked from GitHub this week, the Microsoft-owned software development platform said it has started restricting accounts in countries facing U.S. trade sanctions.
GitHub lists Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syris as countries facing U.S. sanctions.
As the Crimean developer reports, his website tkashkin.tk, which is hosted on GitHub, now returns a 404 error. He also can't create new private GitHub repositories or access them.
"I am in fact a Russian citizen with Crimean registration, I am physically in Crimea, and I am living in Crimea my entire life," he said."
This is it, the internet's ideology of somewhat existing separately outside country borders is falling apart. It's sad to see, as this is what it was built on.
Zachary Russell
Hahaha madarchod chutiya bakchod
Thomas Reyes
As soon as every poo could afford a cheap portable device with 24/7 internet connectivity, it was over.
Liam Perez
Fuck off, Gates, no one here likes you.
Owen Morgan
No it wasn't you LARPing bullshitter. The Interenet doesn't have an "ideology", it's a bunch of cables, computers and satellites. It was started by the federal government, and has been 100% commercialized since the late eighties. Stop romanticizing technology. It's a tool, not a young-adult novel.
Ayden Ramirez
>t. simpleton engneer philosophy The internet had the potential to avoid government restrictions on information but instead of p2p and crypto, people chose to make a quick buck and ruined it.
>"We could have saved this government-funded & built technology!! Still LARPing, I see. P2P and crypto would have saved the world from governments seeing their "information", hungh? I'm 42, Mr. YetAnotherLARPER.
Charles Martin
>government-funded & built In what backwards country does the government fund and build internet infrastructure. The government does not own the internet or anything to do with the information sent in the internet, especially in encrypted form. No government has a moral (and often constitutional) right to claim anything on the internet as its own.
Lucas Powell
Sad but true
Handing over responsibilities to large corps based in the real world was never going to end well
Blake Hernandez
>2019 >still not moving over to GitLab
Noah Sullivan
lmao kek
Joshua Green
You should do a little research on how the Internet started, user. That doesn't matter, though: my point was that it is 100% commercialized, and always will be,, and no amount of P2P, crypto or darknet-routing will change that. The Internet backbone itself could be perfectly free (and should be), but someone will always want control of access to it and the WWW.
>started Completely irrelevant to the current situation. >always wants Of course they do but they're not entitled to it.
Ian Cox
Yeah, the statement from that dev seemed ridiculous to me (he basically said "this is my only option"). Besides Gitlab, there are plenty of other options. The website is up-and-running for me in the U.S., and he just made new commits and released a new version yesterday, so this is another "the sky is falling" standard Jow Forums-post.
Jackson Collins
Nobody uses gitlab so he will have to change every instance that points to his github to gitlab.
Alexander Price
Whelp, shit happens when you use someone elses servers and software to host your project. And we aren't entitled to free, unencumbered access to the Internet as long as it is provided by corporations and regulated by governments and media. That is pretty-much how the world works. It wasn't "handed over", jeez do you guys read anything at all? And besides, if the Internet infrastructure world-wide wasn't financed by corporations, no-one would be complaining on a Burgerland origami forum about it. That goes for pretty-much all major tech: someone has to fund it.
Angel Lewis
>Github users get banned because of Trump's retarded Israel cocksucking >all because Microsoft owns Github Fuck Trump, Microshit and Israel. And especially fuck Trump for being a pathetic lapdog to his Israeli masters
Also fuck all these worthless seppo cunts mindlessly praising Trump, enjoy getting drafted to fight Iran for Israel you fucking retards
Xavier Ramirez
The internet was literally created by the military, you ignorant fuck.
Jaxson Foster
land of the free lmao
Jacob Clark
Who cares, I moved to GitLab a year ago.
Jordan Mitchell
>After a developer based in the Crimea region you mean bydlo? bydlo is worse than pajeets, so no value was lost.
Matthew Wood
>And we aren't entitled to free If free means USA post-internet neutralty, sure. Here in the EU it's all good. Quickly taken over by private corporations because the government and its lackeys have no engineering capacity.
Jose Wilson
this. they agreed with ToS that states they must be loo-trained to code.
Colton Thompson
I'm posting in this thread specifically to say, "I don't care."
I don't think I should worry about this, but I still started to backup my repositories to GitLab. GitHub feels like it's losing its charm with every passing day.
Nicholas Cook
the internet is not about your gay internationalist ideology. It has no ideology.
Easton Gonzalez
GITHUB IS A US-BASED COMPANY AND HAS TO COMPLY WITH US SANCTIONS GITLAB IS ALSO A US-BASED COMPANY AND HAS TO COMPLY WITH US SANCTIONS END TRANSMISSION
Nolan Sullivan
except you can host your own gitlab you stupid nigger.
Ian Sanchez
SO DO IT
IF YOU USE GITHUB.COM YOU'LL GET CENSORED
Luke Martin
Eh ti Cho blyad
Ian Jenkins
poo in the loo rakesh
Brody Butler
>GitHub lists Crimea They can just Crimea river >Cuba Name a single Cuban that has a modern computer or cell phone, to be able to program up-to-date software. >Iran Why would nuclear stations want to upload their software onto GitHub, when they're already trying to protect themselves against US and Israeli hackers? >North Korea They're too busy working with Russian hackers to influence the next US elections in favor of the self-destructive Trump again. >and Syris At least learn to spell Syria right and those sanctions have been in place since Bush Jr.
Now you know who the audio products company Bose is named after.
Connor Parker
Okay I know this isn't Jow Forums but why are we (USA) imposing sanctions against Crimea specifically? If the government's stance is to get Crimea back to Ukraine, why are they targeting them and not Russia as a whole? Were just making the situation objectively worse for everybody.
Jose Edwards
That's the point of sanctions; for the US to make things shit for everyone in the hopes that they somehow blame Russia for America's actions.
