Subject: Re: [hrpc] Censorship

From: farzaneh badii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 23:59:43 -0500

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:24 PM Bill Woodcock <[email-masked]> wrote:

>
>
> > On Mar 12, 2022, at 6:44 PM, Bill Jouris <b_jouris=
> [email-masked]> wrote:
> > Let's be serious.  ANY sanctions applied to a country are "collective
> punishment."
>
> Hang on, really?  You’re saying that you view sanctions applied to the
> military of a country that’s conducting offensive military action, which
> occasioned the sanction, as “collective punishment?”
>
> If so, at what degree of individuality do you believe sanctions must be
> applied in order to meet the test of not constituting collective punishment?

>
> Or is no mass-murderer so vile as to warrant being inconvenienced in their
> online shopping?
>

The problem is you won’t inconvenience “their online shopping”! As
evidenced in every other program, you won't stop anybody but ordinary
people. It will affect people’s access to the Internet. every day all sorts
of mass murderers conveniently use the Internet to do what they want. But
what you are proposing is like having a visa regime in place. The mass
murders love having it in place too. Because they can deprive ordinary
people easily.  And that visa regime allows a lot of the Ruling parties
with dubious pasts to cross the borders. What a sad future we will have in
that case. Getting visas to go from one place to another on the Internet
makes it hard for ordinary people to do so,while the rich/ruling party can
have a blast. Probably the masse murderers will also be able to gain
passports that immunizes them from punishment on the Internet. While
ordinary people won't. They will wait in line. While the elites decide who
is a good person and who is not, using the rule of man.

>                                 -Bill
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