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GitHub used to be an open and free platform for everyone, but it has decided to restrict Iranian accounts from contributing and being part of the open-source ecosystem. Although we understand GitHub might make this decision under the pressure of US government, we were expecting more respectful action from GitHub.
Github restricted our access to private repositories suddenly, but at very least we wanted Github to warn us before limiting our access.
GitHub’s team decided to take one step further and restrict us based on our Nationality no matter where we are living, while they were able to just restrict our IP addresses like other US-based companies.
Eventually, we are hoping that GitHub’s team:
Some examples of open-source projects created by Iranian developers:
https://github.com/usablica/intro.js
https://github.com/lebab/lebab
https://github.com/saeedalipoor/icono
https://github.com/morteza/bootstrap-rtl
https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary
https://github.com/TheSNAKY/Lives
https://github.com/sasanrose/phpredmin
https://github.com/ahmdrz/goinsta
https://github.com/persepolisdm/persepolis
https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/pycm
https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/art
https://github.com/imaNNeoFighT/fl_chart
You can find the full list here.
You can spread the message everywhere you can, and keep the Free Software “as in Free speech”.
You can:
GitHub banned all Iranian users. on Reddit
Dan Abramov: Wow, looking forward to getting blocked from @GitHub when US decides to sanction Russia on Twitter
Behdad Esfahbod: So, recently @github has started disabling accounts of Iranian developers on Twitter
Conner Orth on Twitter
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