This is a really strong argument for not depending on non-federated, centrally controlled services. It doesn’t matter which country or company is behind Your Favorite Service™, they can be legally mandated to by Oppressive Regime (“it could never happen in my country!”), or they could just be arbitrary assholes.

I don’t care why Microsoft did it. I moved off Github when MS acquired them, although in this case it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. Regardless, what it proves is that you can not rely on a monopoly.

All fair but with current us foreign policy I really have hard time respecting their authority on anything

Mega corps gonna mega corp so that why there is a need for decentralization where possible. Otherwise we are all gonna be enslaved by a few mentally ill people with out any check or balace.

its sad that this is what the country decided to do. FOSS has nothing to do with the wars waged by politicians, sometimes at the expense of the very people trying to collaborate together despite chauvinism.

i imagine it will sadly get worse as these types of conflicts escalate.

So now we know how to instantly delist any project on GitHub.

If I interpret this toot correctly, there wasn’t a direct commit from a sanctioned region, but one developer was in one of those regions for a short while quite some time ago. And he may have been flagged because of this.

If they can tell they’re from a banned region why are they letting them push in the first place. Sounds like a convenient excuse.