An Iranian Developer's Experience with Digital Exclusion and Automated Discrimination
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Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
An Iranian software engineer shares personal experiences of facing digital discrimination and exclusion due to their nationality. The article recounts how Microsoft deleted their app from the Microsoft Store without explanation, ignored their emails, and how GitHub blocked their account citing US sanctions. The author reflects on the broader implications of such automated exclusion systems that treat people from certain countries as 'database entries' rather than human beings, highlighting the emotional and professional impact of being systematically excluded from global tech platforms.
Key quotes
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GitHub blocked my account and sent me an email saying that due to US sanctions, they cannot provide services to me
I am not a database entry. I am a human being
These systems are designed to exclude, to discriminate, to treat people as if they are nothing more than a line in a database
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