Negotiating with a non-US entity for as smooth a mirror as possible? Not sure, but resistance to stupidity isn't futile.
While I’ve no familiarity with the law in this area, I’d imagine this is surely still illegal too? If one could just openly pass the business to a foreign partner it would somewhat defeat the purpose of sanctions.
I don't want to be the one to invoke Godwin's law, but there are ways to remain within the law and still resist in a meaningful way when the stakes are high.
> when the stakes are high.
The stakes are not high here.
That comment deserves more detail. Blocking an entire sovereign nation from significant useful "free" information seems pretty important to me.
Iranian users being unable to use GitHub is an incredibly insignificant issue.
Oy, really? Care to cede control over what portions of GitHub you're allowed to access over to me?
Please don't add nationalistic insults to HN threads. Also, please don't post unsubstantive comments generally.
Yeah, watching Hacker News try to violate sanctions from first principles is amusing.
Please elaborate. Sanctions don't ban every effort to not be stupid. Compliance isn't condolance. "Following orders" is demonstrably not a great defense.