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

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.