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dingleberry420 | 3 years ago

So making a PR to some project the US government might decide to sanction means github is going to delete my account?

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salawat|3 years ago

Yes, pretty much.

This is why I'm surprised more people aren't way more terrified about OFAC than there are. It's probably one of the nastiest diplomatic tools the U.S. has in its arsenal.

Spivak|3 years ago

I think this thread has a lot of today's 10,000 finding out what it's like to interact with the US gov't as non-citizens by way of this tiny tiny little taste.

dingleberry420|3 years ago

Nice, what's next? Jailing everyone who ever had an abortion? Why aren't y'all americans doing that yet, if it's apparently acceptable to punish people for things they did before the supposed crime was made illegal?