GitHub a new version of the rules that define policy regarding compliance with US export control laws. Rules restrictions on private repositories and corporate accounts of companies operating in territories subject to sanctions (Crimea, Iran, Cuba, Syria, Sudan, North Korea), but so far they have not been applied to individual developers of non-commercial projects.
New edition of the rules an explanation indicating the possibility of restricting the operation of public services for individual users located in the sanctioned territories. These users are required to use the platform only for personal communications. In addition to changing the rules, GitHub also began in practice to restrict access to its services to non-commercial users from sanctioned countries.
For example, the
under restriction Account , the author of the project living in Crimea , whose site tkashkin.tk was blocked, hosted through the GitHub Pages service, and a ban on the creation of free private repositories was introduced, and existing private repositories were blocked. The ability to create public repositories has been left. To remove the restrictions, it was proposed to provide proof that the user does not live in Crimea, but Kashkin is a citizen of the Russian Federation, living and registered in Crimea, so sending an appeal is not possible.
Similar restrictions are also to many individual Iranian developers who also had their free private repositories blocked and GitHub Pages closed. Services were blocked without prior warning and without the possibility to make a backup copy (including the support service provide up-to-date data from blocked services). At the same time, access to public repositories is provided to everyone without changes.
Source: opennet.ru