Most open source projects are important alternatives to escape pilitical and commercial control/limitations/censorship existant in commercial products, driven by commercial interests. With the current situation all US-based companies are even more subject to political pressure.

An embargo by the US towards any country/entity would mean US companies have to shut down their services for that entity.

As many open source projects seem to be hosted on github (M$), could they be blocked nearly instantly? Thus giving the pumpkin the power to sabotage alternatives to US controlled tools?

(Hope I‘m not in the wrong community to bring this up. Hints to better suited places are welcome.)