Here's something you may never have to see in your lifetime:
This is not something new to me and many others. In fact these sort of discriminations have happened to me so much that I'm very sad to have gotten used to it. Let me catch you up on what's going on.
Update 1 - 28/7/19
It is now possible to make your private repositories public.
A few days ago, I received an email from GitHub which stated that my GitHub account has been restricted due to "Trade Control Laws Restrictions". Opening my GitHub profile, I found out that I can't access my private repositories. It also had stopped publishing my GitHub Pages sites. I was pretty upset and disappointed to see this happen again.
I understand that GitHub may be innocent and simply obligated to comply by the US government laws and regulations but here's the sad part, it's not the governments who suffer. It's us. We have to pay the price just because governments and politicians don't get along.
I do appreciate GitHub providing free private repository hosting for us, but I do believe it was absolutely unprofessional and unethical to block our access to our private assets without any prior notice.
You might think, "what's the big deal?! there are many alternatives out there." Yeah, I know but this is not what it's about. It's about being constantly overlooked and discriminated against and not being able to have the same right to access the tools and resources as your fellow DEVs. 😔
How would you feel like if you wake up tomorrow and see that @ben is blocking your access to this great community of amazing developers for a stupid reason?
Please make sure to checkout this repo for more information and see how you can help us.
1995parham
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github-do-not-ban-us
GitHub do not ban us from open source world 🇮🇷
A Message to GitHub
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Attention! We are so thankful for your support. This repository always shows that people are all together against unfortunate happening around the world As GitHub revised some of the previous restrictions, we decided to reduce this repository's activity. Of course, it does not mean that we agree with the sanctions and the GitHub We will post a conclusion and explain more soon, please wait for that. The campaign will be terminated Thursday 1 August 23:59 (Tehran Time GMT +4:30). After this time we won't merge any new PR. Once again thanks for your support and kindness Please wait for our final conclusion
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Latest comments (105)
After doing a 🌐search for open-source hosting I think that; You should consider Keybase - Wikipedia-link
keybase.io is providing an end to end encryption git hosting service and since it is entirely encrypted and also available via tor .onion the government shouldn't be able to see that you are located in a embargoed region!
Sorry man, that genuinely SUCKS!
What do you expect my muslim friendo.
This is a heartbreaking situation. I am deeply concerned about open source content and services being censored this way.
I hope I'm not being insensitive to your plight in saying I think open source heavens like GitHub being acquired by corporations made it more politically visible to end up with results like this.
I hope to do whatever I can to voice your and my concerns and act against this restriction. This is completely against the philosophy of open source we fight for, and is also a huge breach of freedom of speech.
Thank you for fighting to bring this issue to light.
Thanks for writing this. It needed to be said, and I understand your anger at the situation.
It so happens that there is a technical solution to this that removes unreliable intermediaries like this.
This is just another result of "we aren't going to control your source anymore, but we'll control your infrastructure and data!"
Seeing this is very bad, coding should be free from discrimination and sharing & hosting too. Github is the oldest and most used platform for both. Hope they listen and change their mind.
I also do not understand the ban sure there is important info that a state should not use and get to hurt other states but professionals can bypass that restriction anyway. So it hits only the poor people not the once intended to get hit.
Our governments are curses that will stick with us for eternity apparently. I feel you brother. Even though I fled my country Syria long time ago, lots of my friends are facing these troubles and we are sick trying to find alternatives.
Unfortunately, US based companies (GitHub) has no choice but to follow the governments punishments on some countries and ban their services there.
All this makes us really late in the internet evolution. I know we are miles away but I have hope in the coming 10 years (blockchain is going to change a lot of things)
Hopefully.
You might think, "what's the big deal?! there are many alternatives out there."
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