Boarders are a shitty instrument of state-control that aims to prevent communication and free movement of people - equivalent crime against human freedom in my mind to censorship. Meanwhile, capital can cross boarders at will. A foreigner can not sell their labour, but an foreign-investor can sell their gold?
How about a petition to freeze the assets of any company involved in internet censorship? Now we are talking. Tye, John N: > Hi everyone, > > A petition on whitehouse.gov calls for the U.S. to deny visas to anyone > working to advance internet censorship, e.g. the builders of the Great > Firewall. So far it has 8796 signatures - and needs 91,204 by February 24 > before the White House will respond. > > https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/people-who-help-internet-censorship-builders-great-firewall-china-example-should-be-denied-entry-us/5bzJkjCL > > we petition the obama administration to: > People who help internet censorship, builders of Great Firewall in China for > example, should be denied entry to the U.S. > People work on information technology always need to communicate and exchange > knowledges between countries. If some of them use their skills and technology > for blocking people to use internet for certain governments, all the other > countries should boycott such behavior. > If they apply to enter U.S., for example to attendant technology conference, > as a responsible government has always valued freedom, it reasonable to deny > it. > Here is a list of scholars who are working on the GFW in China. > https://gist.github.com/4635732 > > __________ > John N. Tye > Internet Freedom | Office of Multilateral & Global Affairs (MLGA) > Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor (DRL) | United States Department > of State > 202.647.3322 > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
