In July, GitHub blocked several accounts to prevent users in Iran from accessing several portions of its service. A few days later Amazon Web Services followed suite. With major cloud services pulling support for developers in the country, many lost their academic work and several apps ceased to function. A solution for these developers now is to cut reliance on American giants and build their own services. But there’s a catch: Internet in Iran is heavily censored, so they can’t rely on local networks. After Trump backed away from the nuclear deal, there’s been a tremendous pressure on tech companies to block IPs from Iran. Plus, Mozilla decided to omit a whole transparency section in its report on the country succumbing to the government pressure. With sanctions on one side and censorship on the other, there’s a tough road ahead for developers. Ivan Mehta, a journalist at The Next Web, looks at the issue.
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https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/10/24/1842214/the-iranian-developer-deadlock-stuck-between-censorship-and-us-sanctions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed