GitHub blocked me and all my libraries
The author is Russian and has numerous seemingly popular github repositories. They question Github&#x27;s decision to ban their account without giving them any reasoning and illustrates how the open source community has lost a lot of value as a result of the comment&#x2F;asset removal.<p>The author&#x27;s comparison to internment camps and other dramatic measures of government suppression seems unfair. Github not providing reasoning is also unfair, but seems to be standard practice among corporations (maybe to help with liability?). The questions Github is asking from the user relate to U.S. OFAC policy, which is how the U.S. enforces economic sanctions. Basically if you&#x27;ve done business with North Korea or a number of other flagged entities you can be held liable criminally or more often for huge fines.<p>I don&#x27;t know how the author triggered whatever automatic suspension mechanism github has in place, but I think github should priorize the author&#x27;s case given their contribution to the community. I don&#x27;t think Github is an evil organization. I do think OFAC policy is difficult to enforce and the U.S. gov should make it easier. If Github reported  the number of suspensions, who was suspended or explain why a suspension happened I would have more trust in them as a platform.