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I would not be suprised if we get something along the lines of "Unfortunately, this repository is currently unavailable in your country" sometime soon. Many websites still completely block EU users post GDPR, e.g. Chicago Tribune.



Imagine a world where your project dependencies can be deprecated by import/export law.


What's there to imagine? We already live in such a world.


So that would mean I, as a foreigner, will have to do a little work to import it instead. That won't stop a lot of technically literate people.


Remember how it was done the last time the idiotic US government did the same stunt with crypto.... Zimmerman (PGP) physically printed and bound books containing the full OCR-happy font of the source code.

Evidently to the dinosaurs in Congress, a physical book is something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than a file online.


us and non-us mirrors, bxa notices, oh my!




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