The Office of Foreign Assets Control which is the agency for managing sanctions, took sanctions not only the organisation of an open source project, but made it broad enough to target the open source code too. While they later clarified that simply republishing the original (and no longer working) code before the sanction is OK, working or seeking questions about technical details on it remains likely banned until a court decides otherwise.

In that case, would Stack Exchange try to seek that code is speech in courts like some rare cases which wait to be compelled doing it ?
Or would it take the legal safety of the GitHub approach which ended up deleting the accounts of foreign developers immediately without waiting to be asked to do so ?
Rephrased: When OFAC partially bans code in an addition to their related individuals and when GitHub is putting all repositories of a software read‑only and deletes any newer contributions, would Stack exchange join the cohorts of forums even banning statistical data and academic publications related to the underlying algorithms in order to protect themselves legally ?

Or, would the response vary on a case-by-case basis even when there’s huge criticism about the decision of the OFAC in the field of the concerned community ?

EFF is deeply concerned that the U.S. Treasury Department has included an open-source computer project, Tornado Cash, on its list of sanctioned individuals. Tornado Cash is an open-source software project and website that published a decentralized cryptocurrency mixer. Code has long been recognized as speech, so there are clear First Amendment implications whenever the government inhibits the publication of computer code on a public website. - @EFF

The Office of Foreign Assets Control which is the agency for managing sanctions, took sanctions not only against the organisation of an open source project, but made it broad enough to target the open source code too. While they later clarified that simply republishing the original (and no longer working) code before the sanction is OK, working or seeking questions about technical details on it remains likely banned until a court decides otherwise.

In that case, would Stack Exchange try to seek that code is speech in courts like some rare cases which wait to be compelled doing it ?
Or would it take the legal safety of the GitHub approach which ended up deleting the accounts of foreign developers immediately without waiting to be asked to do so ?
Rephrased: When OFAC partially bans code in an addition to their related individuals and when GitHub is putting all repositories of a software read‑only and deletes any newer contributions, would Stack exchange join the cohorts of forums even banning statistical data and academic publications related to the underlying algorithms in order to protect themselves legally ?

Or, would the response vary on a case-by-case basis even when there’s huge criticism about the decision of the OFAC in the field of the concerned community ?

EFF is deeply concerned that the U.S. Treasury Department has included an open-source computer project, Tornado Cash, on its list of sanctioned individuals. Tornado Cash is an open-source software project and website that published a decentralized cryptocurrency mixer. Code has long been recognized as speech, so there are clear First Amendment implications whenever the government inhibits the publication of computer code on a public website. - @EFF

The Office of Foreign Assets Control which is the agency for managing sanctions, took sanctions not only about an open source project as sanctioning an organization, but also its open-source code too. While they later clarified that simply republishing the original (and no longer working) code before the sanction is OK, working or seeking questions about technical details on it remains likely banned until a court decides otherwise.

In that case, would Stack Exchange try to seek that code is speech in courts like some rare cases which wait to be compelled doing it ?  Or would it take the legal safety of the GitHub approach which ended up deleting the accounts of foreign developers immediately without waiting to be asked to do so ? Rephrased: When OFAC partially bans code in an addition to their related individuals and when GitHub is putting all repositories of a software read‑only and deletes any newer contributions, would Stack exchange join the cohorts of forums even banning statistical data and academic publications related to the underlying algorithms in order to protect themselves legally ?

Or, would the response vary on a case-by-case basis even when there’s huge criticism about the decision of the OFAC in the field of the concerned community ?

EFF is deeply concerned that the U.S. Treasury Department has included an open-source computer project, Tornado Cash, on its list of sanctioned individuals. Tornado Cash is an open-source software project and website that published a decentralized cryptocurrency mixer. Code has long been recognized as speech, so there are clear First Amendment implications whenever the government inhibits the publication of computer code on a public website. - @EFF

The Office of Foreign Assets Control which is the agency for managing sanctions, took sanctions not only the organisation of an open source project, but made it broad enough to target the open source code too. While they later clarified that simply republishing the original (and no longer working) code before the sanction is OK, working or seeking questions about technical details on it remains likely banned until a court decides otherwise.

In that case, would Stack Exchange try to seek that code is speech in courts like some rare cases which wait to be compelled doing it ? 
Or would it take the legal safety of the GitHub approach which ended up deleting the accounts of foreign developers immediately without waiting to be asked to do so ? 
Rephrased: When OFAC partially bans code in an addition to their related individuals and when GitHub is putting all repositories of a software read‑only and deletes any newer contributions, would Stack exchange join the cohorts of forums even banning statistical data and academic publications related to the underlying algorithms in order to protect themselves legally ?

Or, would the response vary on a case-by-case basis even when there’s huge criticism about the decision of the OFAC in the field of the concerned community ?

EFF is deeply concerned that the U.S. Treasury Department has included an open-source computer project, Tornado Cash, on its list of sanctioned individuals. Tornado Cash is an open-source software project and website that published a decentralized cryptocurrency mixer. Code has long been recognized as speech, so there are clear First Amendment implications whenever the government inhibits the publication of computer code on a public website. - @EFF