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> This means that anyone who's in a country that has blocked GitHub or where GitHub has been blocked due to sanctions is unable to participate in the Rust ecosy
by bouncing 4y ago
> This means that anyone who's in a country that has blocked GitHub or where GitHub has been blocked due to sanctions is unable to participate in the Rust ecosystem. Or maybe your account has been blocked due to sanctions? Boom, all your work gone. You can't access your account now.
Is there reason to believe that if crates.io were self-hosted, it wouldn't be subject to the same laws? Or is the theory that Microsoft/GitHub is covered by sanctions rules that a not-for-profit might not be?
- zaphirplane 4y agoIf a non profit registered in say Italy hosting some packages that say the Brazilian government or court want taken down, do they have a recourse other than convincing an Italian court ? If the packages are hosted by a company with a Brazilian branch or subsidiary, then I suppose that subsidiary carries the consequences
- bouncing 4y agoThey could either block the Italian website (as is getting increasingly common) or go after vendors, like hosting providers.