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Another option is an anti-money-laundering like system.

It would need to be set up by an extremely powerful country, either the US or an alliance of smaller countries through international treaty.

It would work as follows:

There'd be a "naughty list." Anybody on the list would be arrested upon entering a participating country. This would include past or current company employees (if employed after the listing date). Companies from participating countries would be prohibited from interacting with listed organizations in any way, under treat of sanctions. This would include VPN, cloud and hosting companies, ISPs, domain registrars, email hosts, payment processors and ad networks. This would provide basic site blocking.

Foreign companies wouldn't be subject to the sanctions, but participating countries would also put them on the list.



You're aware this exists, yes? It's called the OFAC list. It's not generally used to list technologists or web sites related to speech, though, as far as I know.


Interestingly many, if not most cybercrime organizations are on the OFAC list. So many companies who have paid when hit by ransomware have violated US law.

I am unaware of any prosecutions in this area.

https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-inf...




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