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> “you can leave if you don’t like it,” but that’s true for all systems of governance. Is it? Can you just leave North Korea if you please?
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
> “you can leave if you don’t like it,” but that’s true for all systems of governance.
Is it? Can you just leave North Korea if you please?
- tshaddox 5y agoOkay, fair enough. It's true for most systems of governance.
- int_19h 5y agoNot in practice. For example, not issuing an international passport effectively amounts to a travel ban, and many countries do it for all kinds of reasons (e.g. to combat conscription or child support evasion, or for "national security" reasons). It's even worse if you look at history. For example, US routinely denied passports to "communist sympathizers" until 1960s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_v._Dulles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_v._Dulles).