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What happened? Why did github block them?

OrganicMaps GitHub repo was blocked due to contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

Thank you. Would you mind explaining what this means please? What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?

contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place

The US has been punishing open source contributors from countries they don’t like.

@TheOubliette @racketlauncher831 supporters and apologists of violence against innocent civilians should be punished, by any human. You don't think so? Do you support violence against innocent civilians?

Sanctions are indiscriminate punishment that mainly affect innocent civilians.

@driving_crooner sanctions work to stop undemocratic regimes. Those regimes are keeping their own people hostage, and I wish there was a way to save the anti-regime people without supporting the regime. But traveling to Crimea is not what anti-regime people do, so sanction that ass.

Where the sanctions on Saudi Arabia or any others western aligned dictatorship? Sanctions are weapons that kill innocent people, denying people of medicines and food.

Please educate yourself.