GitHub starts suspending Russian accounts, including some individual developers

I don't know if this is a good thing. Why would a random dev guy suffer from his/her government actions. I had for example a team of russian devs. Impossible to pay them at this point. They are all good guys and women. Now they fall back into what? And believe me. Some are getting frustrating and angry towards the west. I see many people around me crying for hard sanctions on every Russian person. I get downvoted to oblivion when I say something about this on reddit or some local forums. I just think that this razzia or how would you call it, goes too far. i don't support it.

Luckily the article links its sources, so we can see that <i>&quot;some individual developers&quot;</i> is one guy on twitter who later said he is unblocked again and claims it was related to sanctions against his former employer. Would be interesting to see if people currently working for the sanctioned banks are affected. Investigative journalism instead of regurgitating blogs and tweets. Maybe i am too harsh, it is good some people translate russian sources.<p>More interesting is is the side note about GitHub enforcing the crimea sanctions from 2014 (still ongoing) that prohibit, among other things, the export of goods, technology, or services to the Crimea region of Ukraine. It seems that crimea nowadays only has two backbone providers, both routing through russia. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hal.archives-ouvertes.fr&#x2F;hal-03100247&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hal.archives-ouvertes.fr&#x2F;hal-03100247&#x2F;</a><p>Looking at how this could affect civilians in the crimea region it seems their primary problems are ethnic cleansing and oppression of opposition, not access to american services.

People are always looking for an excuse to hate &quot;the others&quot;. We will always find new groups of people to label as &quot;the others&quot;. For now it&#x27;s the Russians, so we cheer on anybody who is also against the others.

All countries should see using foreign online services as a national security threat and ban them outright. China was right al along with the Great Firewall. They still allow GitHub as of now though.