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Re:Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract by mc32 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:30PM (#21705289)
Yes countries have the option to blockade, sanction, tariff, ostracize and so on. National governments can do that.

We do some of those things with DPRK, Iran and Russia, among others. Still, some countries are more resilient than others of more stubborn than others and will press on. Iran is a decent example. We sanction and apply other pressures, they go in killing and persevere despite all that.

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Re:Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract by claudeganon on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:39PM (#21705404)
You’re wrongly conflating state power with that of bottom-up mass organization rooted in empathy and mutual solidarity. What’s happening at Github is more akin to the latter than the former, unless your also arguing that states should quash all internal rebellions and challenges to their power.
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