With Apple’s vigilante-sanctions-enforcement/racial profiling of Iranian Americans receiving well-deserved attention, we wanted to spotlight similar over-enforcement of broad sanctions by tech companies impacting people inside Iran. Below is a list of services not technically blocked by sanctions but still denied to Iranians by U.S. companies, compiled via researcher Collin Anderson who maintains and updates the list here:
Publisher Product Blocked By Company Require License? Notes Google Talk X N AdSense X Y AdWords X Y Android Market X N Google Code X N App Engine X N Cannot Host or Access Resource on Platform Yahoo Yahoo Messenger X N Yahoo Yahoo Web Messenger No SSL Support N GoDaddy (all) X N Webpage Does Not Respond Adobe (commercial products) X Varies Webpage Does Not Respond Geeknet, Inc. Sourceforge X ITAR Issue McAfee MacAfee Antivirus X Y Symantec/Norton (all) ? Y AVG Technologies (all) X Y Oracle MySQL X Not Where Free Oracle NetBeans X N Xacti Group inbox.com X N cPanel, Inc. cPanel X Y Logitech (all) X Varies