Illegal discriminative geoblock of entire countries HAS BROKEN INSTALLATION AND UPDATES of many apps on Steam OS and other distos!

[v00d00m4n]

This is insanity! CISCO alone can not deside who can have access to download openh264 and can not restrict mirroring of vital component like that! This is violation of human rights, this is violation of opensource principles, this is violation of justice and fair business practice! This is violation of trust!

Just a while ago everything worked fine, but today dozens of applications from Flathub can not be installed and updated "BECAUSE YOU ARE FROM WRONG COUNTRY, OPEN h264 is not OPEN for you, buddy"!

And this is not happens on device or software developed or made by CISCO, it happens with devices and software made by third parties who does not even rely on openh264 directly, but happen to rely of Freedesktop, GNOME and KDE that all has dependencies of openh264!

You cant freaking screw up whole chain of software of other organisations by making desicisions like this alone without asking anyone if they agree and if that would not hurt their business and trust in their organisations!

You scewed up everyone and everything, including Valve and SteamOS that got broken in certain countries, not because decisions of companies like Valve, but because of your desicision! You set them up and betrayed trust!

If i was in charge of any of those companies starting from Valve i would sue CISCO for millions of dollars and demand all the components to be set fully free, and also i would stop trusting CISCO and would spend money on developing more reliable and backwards-compatible alternative to Openh264!

Now lift the goeblock for all countries and never do this again, and let everyone mirror OpenH264 on other distos and repos before million dollars worth class action followed this dumb decision!

[ROBERT-MCDOWELL]

Cisco is a corporation, they do what the want it's their project.

[v00d00m4n]

Cisco is a corporation, they do what the want it's their project.

Access to information is a fundamental human right, closely linked to the right to freedom of expression. Its the right to seek, receive, and impart information, and is recognized as integral to a functioning democracy and the rule of law. This right allows individuals to make informed decisions, participate in public life, and hold governments accountable.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Article 19 of the UDHR recognizes the right to freedom of opinion and expression, which includes the freedom to "seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers".

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR):
The IACHR has emphasized the right of access to information as a fundamental right, stating that states have an obligation to guarantee its full exercise.

Blocking access to websites violates international human rights laws related to access to information and freedom of expression.

No corporation can do what they want is what they want is unlawful and violates human rights.

What CISCO did to Russians by blocking access is no different to what Nazy Germans did to Jews in 1930th before it all went too far in 1940th!

[relativemodder]

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[igormironchik]

Well, CISCO gave free rights even for binaries. But, possibly, they have rights to block access to theirs servers (I'm not a lawyer)... And I confirm, since 06.08.2025 in Belarus I'm unable to update openSUSE Tumbleweed because of forbidden access to https://ciscobinary.openh264.org/

[quantumwall]

Well, another company decided to play politics. The same story happened a year ago with dockerhab. Dockerhab was unavailable for Russia and Belarus for several days. Do they really think that the war will stop without libopenh264?

[michaelmrose]

You don't have a human right to access someone else's server. The fact that it would be very inconvenient to set up your own server isn't a violation of your human rights.

It's also not illegal where the servers are operated which is ultimately the only thing that matters.

If you want to complain about the issue it would be more useful without fabricating imaginary crimes and human rights violations.

[cafeed28]

yet another "open" source moment

[caballero77]

They cry about human rights in Western countries, but will do nothing when their country commits genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. FAFO

[igormironchik]

They cry about human rights in Western countries, but will do nothing when their country commits genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. FAFO

Exactly! I'm almost Russian and confirm your words! I don't see in this issue any human right violations... Russian (almost everyone) don't know what human rights are even...

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[Ataliabul]

You yourself are aware that access has been blocked not only in Russia, but also in Ukraine and Iran.

[LastLightSith]

I'm also getting 403 and I'm from India.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@LastLightSith, similarly, I'm blocked in ENG, as ichaoX/ext-textFragment/issues/24 demonstrates, ¹ whereas mastodon.social/@rokejulianlockhart/115508096149281983 corroborates the original complaint.

Footnotes

1. discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/161434/135 ↩