[kwlug-disc] Sanctions in clouds

[Mikalai Birukou]

It was a voluntary action by Github, i.e. not a specific gov/dmca 
request: 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/iranian-tech-users-are-getting-knocked-web-sanctions

On 2020-01-18 7:46 p.m., Doug Moen wrote:
> Well that sucks. Github apparently took down a Canadian because she has an Iranian last name? I wonder what the internal chain of events was.
>
> Normally when Github received a request from a governmental agency to take down content, they post it here:
>     https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns
>
> These are their DMCA takedowns:
>     https://github.com/github/dmca
>
> However, this action seems to have gone through a different channel. The above repos show that github attempts to be transparent about the reasons for their actions, but it seems not in this case.
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, at 3:20 PM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> This is a tweet from UBC (BC, Canada) assistant professor in software
>> engineering:
>>
>> https://twitter.com/saba_a/status/1215006080922570754