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I didn't say anything about whether this was good or bad. I do have an opinion about the whole export control and sanctions thing, which - reading between the lines - probably isn't that far from yours, but I don't think my opinion is relevant. It is what it is, whether I like it or not.

Github certainly protects itself first and foremost, but in doing so, also provides reasonable protection to most individuals who casually contribute to open source projects. I for my part am quite sure that my personal activity on Github does not bear much of a risk, simply because none of my projects have any particular impact or reach, so I'm effectively off the grid: In the exceedingly unlikely case a sanctioned top terrorist used Github to contribute to one of my repositories there's a long long chain of people to be in trouble before anyone would come after me.

However, that's not the case for my employer, which would be held to a much much higher standard. If said top terrorist contributed to one of my employer's repositories my employer would definitely be in trouble, and if the repository was under my responsibility, so would I, unless I could meticulously prove that I followed my employer's regulations for export control and open source work to the very letter, and thus did all I could possibly to do avoid this situation. And as said in my previous comment, my employer does maintain quite extensive regulations around all this.