> 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?