Re: Gitlab C2
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The statement reads: > "This is a result of moving to a new vendor. In accordance with the > guidance provided by the U.S. government, and not determined by GitLab, > there are some countries that cannot access our platform. We apologize for > the inconvenience this caused users. > https://t.co/JRDR7ucHVN " Thanks for finding that. Can users in Iran access GitLab.com via a proxy outside Iran, such as Tor? If they can, I think that exculpates GitLab itself -- from this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
Re: Gitlab C2
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 14:07:04 -0400 bill-auger wrote: > just as with github C2 previously i suppose we may as well ask Pedram to confirm github's recent C2 change (now passes C2) - is github.com accessible from iran Pedram, as the work-group recently concluded?
Re: Gitlab C2
that twitter post touches the caveat discussed a few months ago, WRT a possible clarification of C2 (that the block is voluntary): from https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/repo-criteria-discuss/2021-03/msg00069.html On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:19:17 -0400 Richard wrote: > > that reads to me like it is referring to something, that would > > be imposed by the gov't, upon everyone, and therefore not > > related to the ethics of the operator > > That would be logical but it is not what we found out. The FSF's > lawyer said we had no legal requirement to block users from those > countries, so we don't. But GitHub did. so this appears to be voluntary, just as with github C2 previously
Re: Gitlab C2
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 03:56 Richard Stallman wrote: > > That the gitlab.com web site blocks connections from Iran. > > What does gitlab.com say its policy is > towards use by Iranians in Iran? That is important, too. > I have seen an "official" statement from Gitlab specifically about Iran, here: https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1312732642228527104?t=Rao1JTPg9FtwGOJCNv2m0g=19 The statement reads: "This is a result of moving to a new vendor. In accordance with the guidance provided by the U.S. government, and not determined by GitLab, there are some countries that cannot access our platform. We apologize for the inconvenience this caused users. https://t.co/JRDR7ucHVN " Best regards, -- ~marado >
