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I’m not going to defend the craziness of the American Government, but why would you go and do something that their treasury has specifically told you that you w
by moksly 5y ago
I’m not going to defend the craziness of the American Government, but why would you go and do something that their treasury has specifically told you that you were not allowed to do?
Hell, if you’re still dead set on doing what you think is right, why wouldn’t you obtain a different citizenship and abandon your American one first?
America is the world “police” when it wants to be, and as wrong as that is, it’s also something you ignore at your own peril.
- mtrycz2 5y agoWhy fight authoritarianism?
- Bootvis 5y agoFighting authoritarianism by working with the North Korean government. How does that work?
- moksly 5y agoHow is going to jail for 20 years because a better way of fighting authoritarianism than escaping it? Yes, it can work, but in order for it to do that, it sort of requires the world to remember you next week. I’m not sure the world even cared this week.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoIt's not just America though; many countries have set and are enforcing sanctions about NK and other countries like Russia and Iran, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_North_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_North_Korea for an overview. TL;DR you should not try and do business or share certain information with certain countries or you violate international sanctions.
- moksly 5y agoWe recently had a guy who spend 10 years infiltrating North Korea as part of making a documentary. He did things that were a lot more in violations of our sanctions against North Korea than giving a speech about things that are freely available on YouTube. He isn’t facing 20 years in jail. Not because we don’t uphold our sanctions, but because our justice system isn’t insane.