> If you have contributors in a sanctioned country they are not cut off from the project and their accounts. By pushing for GitHub you are signalling that you don't want free software, you only want "free for western countries" software
People affected by this could take up arms and rise against their dictatorships. Pushing them to do so is the entire point of sanctions.
In any case, the list of affected countries is pretty small anyway [1]: North Korea, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran. NK'S population is locked out of anything anyway, nothing to be gained or lost from there, everyone who can has already fled Syria. We can debate if the sanctions on Cuba are worth it or not (and I lean towards the latter option), but Iran, Russia and Venezuela? Whatever needs to be done to push their population must be done, period.
People affected by this could take up arms and rise against their dictatorships. Pushing them to do so is the entire point of sanctions.
In any case, the list of affected countries is pretty small anyway [1]: North Korea, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran. NK'S population is locked out of anything anyway, nothing to be gained or lost from there, everyone who can has already fled Syria. We can debate if the sanctions on Cuba are worth it or not (and I lean towards the latter option), but Iran, Russia and Venezuela? Whatever needs to be done to push their population must be done, period.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions