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Sanctions and embargos are getting out of hand. Blanket, rather than targeted individual sanctions/actions, truly only harm the people of a country that have li

Sanctions and embargos are getting out of hand. Blanket, rather than targeted individual sanctions/actions, truly only harm the people of a country that have little to no say in what their government or country does. As seen here, sanctions turn companies that provide services into poor customer service scenarios through forced compliance for what reason ultimately? All that does is make it harder to track since we now live in a surveillance society. What a waste of time and energy. We are living in an age of the abuse of economic sanctions, that ultimately harm the wrong people and make companies/products look bad.

kortilla 8y ago
>Truly they only harm the people of a country that have little to no say in what their government or country does. That’s the whole point. It’s not an unintended side effect. You’re targeting an entire country’s economy to pressure the government regardless of whether or not it’s elected. Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of embargoes.
- drawkbox 8y ago
  Sanctions today are like someone committing a crime in your city and then you invoke martial law until that person gives themselves up without going after that person specifically, making everyone in the city suffer who are simply trying to survive and are powerless to resolve the situation. It is a bit medieval and tribal if you ask me and doesn't work today. Targeting individuals that actually cause the problems is a better strategy. Ultimately, we live in a surveillance society now, blocking people with reckless abandon only limits access to individuals causing issues for all. Technology is being used by authoritarians in frightening ways, somehow this has to get fixed, companies/people need to stop falling in line.
- filleduchaos 8y ago
  It takes a special kind of naivete to think that a country worth placing this sort of embargo on is a country where "pressuring the government" would lead to any tangible results. That or a special kind of callousness, because most often the only way the citizenry can effect change is through violent revolt after reaching the boiling point of poverty and/or oppression.
  - kortilla 8y ago
    Damaging an economy pressures a government whether or not there is any kind of pressure from the citizenry. Governments need economies to run, especially ones depending on the military to “keep peace”. It takes a special kind of naïveté to think governments run in a vacuum independent of the economy.
    - filleduchaos 8y ago
      It's cute you think a failing economy is any pressure to the sort of government I'm talking about. Sincerely, a citizen of a country whose government literally actively bankrupts it.

kortilla 8y ago

>Truly they only harm the people of a country that have little to no say in what their government or country does. That’s the whole point. It’s not an unintended side effect. You’re targeting an entire country’s economy to pressure the government regardless of whether or not it’s elected. Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of embargoes.

drawkbox 8y ago
Sanctions today are like someone committing a crime in your city and then you invoke martial law until that person gives themselves up without going after that person specifically, making everyone in the city suffer who are simply trying to survive and are powerless to resolve the situation. It is a bit medieval and tribal if you ask me and doesn't work today. Targeting individuals that actually cause the problems is a better strategy. Ultimately, we live in a surveillance society now, blocking people with reckless abandon only limits access to individuals causing issues for all. Technology is being used by authoritarians in frightening ways, somehow this has to get fixed, companies/people need to stop falling in line.
filleduchaos 8y ago
It takes a special kind of naivete to think that a country worth placing this sort of embargo on is a country where "pressuring the government" would lead to any tangible results. That or a special kind of callousness, because most often the only way the citizenry can effect change is through violent revolt after reaching the boiling point of poverty and/or oppression.
- kortilla 8y ago
  Damaging an economy pressures a government whether or not there is any kind of pressure from the citizenry. Governments need economies to run, especially ones depending on the military to “keep peace”. It takes a special kind of naïveté to think governments run in a vacuum independent of the economy.
  - filleduchaos 8y ago
    It's cute you think a failing economy is any pressure to the sort of government I'm talking about. Sincerely, a citizen of a country whose government literally actively bankrupts it.