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Discussion on: Github Must Be a Free Platform

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Hadi Golkarian

what's the point of limiting access to services like google cloud for a developer that knows how to change his ip address with a click of a button?
as a developer currently working from iran i have my vpn connection open all the time to bypass restrictions both from inside and outside. 😫

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Fernando B 🚀

Based on the comments here tons of devs don't know about vpn or ip spoofing. Github has nothing to do with freedom as this post talks about. Is just politics and tradition restrictions laws which github has no control over.

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Faramarz Salehpour

Almost all of the Iranians use a VPN on a daily basis. GitHub has blocked Iranian users based on their nationality, not their location, so using a VPN doesn't solve the problem in this case.

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Fernando B 🚀

yeah just read on the other comment about this, I know is difficult dealing with politics and all that, I don't follow none of it.

So no chances of bypassing, some other way? I can't remember but was nationality asked when the account was created?