Freedom of Speech, it's not just for breakfast anymore!
by Bill at 12/08/2004 06:16:00 PM
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."
-- Heinrich Heine
"In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval."
My question is what the hell is the rational for that!
-- Heinrich Heine
"In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval."
My question is what the hell is the rational for that!
I've been trying to think of a smartass answer to your rhetorical question, Bill, but I can't think of anything good.
This current interpretation of the rules is just a mostly senseless power grab by people obsessed with control. We don't call them authoritarians for nothing.
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