Wow that is super fucked up!
No citizen should have to suffer because two stubborn governments can not work past their differences.
Regarding Gitlab however, it might not be them directly blocking access to Iranians, but their platform service provider.
In summer of 2018 gitlab moved off of Azure and onto Google Cloud Platform. With that came an article warning users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria that gitlab might not be accessible to them anymore.
This is because Google says they are bound by legal restrictions arising from Department of the Treasury sanctions against US entities doing business with entities in these countries.
So it might not be a direct business decision by Gitlab to block you and other Iranians from using their services...but apparently they have no problems hosting their service with a provider that might impose those restrictions. Which is fucked up!
All of this aside: Do you still have access to your code in some way?
Or do you at least have up-to-date local versions of all your repos on your machine?
If not, I would offer to clone your public projects from gitlab and mirror them to somewhere where you can download them.
I can't update my projects anymore :(
I couldn't access to my project with Tor
Just tried with some VPN, it worked ...
I donno what should we do.
Github?Nope
GitLab?Nope
SO WHERE?
Damn to all of the governments who cause to happen a lot of problems for their citizens and their people ...
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Thank you so much Daniel for sharing your information with the community
I didn't know anything about that warning
But this problem happened suddenly, it really shocked most of the Iranian developers :(
Keep it up
Happy Coding :)
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Wow that is super fucked up!
No citizen should have to suffer because two stubborn governments can not work past their differences.
Regarding Gitlab however, it might not be them directly blocking access to Iranians, but their platform service provider.
In summer of 2018 gitlab moved off of Azure and onto Google Cloud Platform. With that came an article warning users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria that gitlab might not be accessible to them anymore.
This is because Google says they are bound by legal restrictions arising from Department of the Treasury sanctions against US entities doing business with entities in these countries.
So it might not be a direct business decision by Gitlab to block you and other Iranians from using their services...but apparently they have no problems hosting their service with a provider that might impose those restrictions. Which is fucked up!
All of this aside: Do you still have access to your code in some way?
Or do you at least have up-to-date local versions of all your repos on your machine?
If not, I would offer to clone your public projects from gitlab and mirror them to somewhere where you can download them.
I can't update my projects anymore :(
I couldn't access to my project with Tor
Just tried with some VPN, it worked ...
I donno what should we do.
Github?Nope
GitLab?Nope
SO WHERE?
Damn to all of the governments who cause to happen a lot of problems for their citizens and their people ...
Perhaps something like sr.ht/
Talked to a buddy at GitLab.
Appears to be an issue with someone upstream from them.
Thank you so much Daniel for sharing your information with the community
I didn't know anything about that warning
But this problem happened suddenly, it really shocked most of the Iranian developers :(
Keep it up
Happy Coding :)