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> now they are being punished by the US.

The US didn't mandate deletion of their Github account. The US isn't punishing them – you can tell because they didn't put them explicitly on the SDN list.

Microsoft made the choice to remove their accounts. Their compliance team likely looked and said "$ we make from these devs < $$$ we'd pay to our lawyers to simply decide if we should keep them on our platform."



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