On: Surprise, pay $1000

[rafram]

That may be how things work in some countries, but not in the US, even under Trump.

Let’s Encrypt evidently didn’t mean to block all of Iran, only the Iranian government, which I assume is capable of getting its own certificates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465754

[inigyou → rafram]

Let's Encrypt evidently meant what they said, and the evidence is the fact that they said it. And they said they were sanctioning the whole country of Iran.

[rafram → inigyou]

(The comment I linked is by the executive director of the organization that runs Let’s Encrypt, and he seems to disagree.)