Is Stack Exchange going to limit content related to work about open-source code or statistical data likely to be under a ban in the United States?

Question

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

Answer 1

I am not a lawyer, nor am I an employee, so obviously, take an official answer over mine

I was also saying would Stack Exchange try to seek that code is speech in courts?

So far, we've never seen Stack Exchange be particularly activist over such matters. Stack Exchange runs a business of hosted Q&A access (via teams and enterprise) or selling instances of such things for various levels of self hosting. Such a ban is unlikely to be contested, simply because it doesn't make much sense to.

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 ?

I've not seen this happen before. That said, the developer of Silk Road has an account, and if I understand correctly - Stack Exchange was asked for information about this

Assuming things haven't changed since they said

We comply with any legally enforceable requests for information from law enforcement agencies.

It seems quite reasonable to assume that

1. The staff of the company, even those involved directly in the community are not going to be aware of everything the US government does, or everything that goes on over several hundred communities

2. Its going to take a specific, legally enforceable request to do something. Its worth taking a look at how DMCA takedowns are handled.

3. Any such actions would need to keep the local mods filled in - and where a specific topic was blocklisted on meta due to company policy, in general it was handled by the community team. Meta might be special, but 'legal' isn't something mods handle, and day to day moderation on a specific site is a 'special' case for the community team, so it'd likely need mods to refer such questions to a community team member or legal.

Which is a lot of words for "The government organisation would need to ask properly, formally and legally, and we'll have to figure out what to do"

I'd note that I've never heard of accounts in good standing being deleted for these reasons and in general, I feel like an account deletion would be the wrong thing to do.