GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions

Source: zdnet.com If you use GitHub’s online services in a country facing US sanctions, you could be about to be kicked off all but the most basic offerings.There’s a debate over free speech taking place after Microsoft-owned GitHub “restricted” the account of a developer based in the Crimea region of Ukraine, who used the service to host his website and gaming software. GitHub this week told Anatoliy Kashkin, a 21-year-old Russian citizen who lives in Crimea, that it had “restricted” his

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