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Restricting communication with China isn’t just a restriction on China, but on Americans. These laws prevent Americans from freely associating. You see the sam
by alexmingoia 6y ago
Restricting communication with China isn’t just a restriction on China, but on Americans. These laws prevent Americans from freely associating.
You see the same spin with immigration and trade restrictions. They are in fact a restriction of Americans’ freedom to trade and associate, but are always presented from the other angle (as a restriction on foreigners).
- totetsu 6y agoA lot of the investigative journalism that goes on these days often involves people just looking at the traces left out in the open on public websites. Think of how much of what we know of the regional suppression programs in Xinjiang comes from volunteers looking at government requests for contractors and the like. A world without a shared internet is a world where Human rights abuses can carry on unobserved.
- koonsolo 6y agoWhen I (EU citizen) was on holliday in Cuba, I met a woman from US who had to do some special things to be able to visit that country as a tourist. She tried to make sure the US didn't know about it. "Freedom" is very relative indeed.