They are notorious and hated, like death squad level in the free minded, geek community in the country.
I can't believe his post got this much attention and sympathy without anyone noticing he works in a freedom killing company... what a joke!
Sanctions really hurt... good luck using a good cloud provider, which is a backbone for our daily activities as developers. No doubt about that, nothing new.
The problem is our double standards in the middle east, we fuck up everything then blame it on others. They (west, east, x, y) aren't saints but we aren't either. Here is a clear example of this ugly truth.
I know people mostly from minorities (Kurds, atheists, LGBT, secular, Narenji guys) with death sentences in Iran because of their online activities and if there is a single corporation you can easily blame and point to who lands a hand to the government for their inhuman acts it's them, Douran.
Double standards won't work, you can only fool people for a very short period of time in our era.