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Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist'
yuna49 writes "Adam Liptak of the New York Times reports today about the plight of a Spanish tour operator whose domain names have been embargoed by his domain name registrar (eNom). They pulled his domains after they discovered the tour operator's name on a US Treasury blacklist. It turns out he packages tours to Cuba largely for European tourists who can legally travel there, unlike Americans. The article cites 'a press release issued in December 2004, almost three years before eNom acted. It said Mr. Marshall's company had helped Americans evade restrictions on travel to Cuba and was "a generator of resources that the Cuban regime uses to oppress its people." It added that American companies must not only stop doing business with the company but also freeze its assets, meaning that eNom did exactly what it was legally required to do.' The only part of the operator's business in the United States is his domain name registration; all other aspects of his business lie outside the United States."
Don't forget they're also helping generate funds for an evil, damsel kidnapping, moustache twirling dictatorship!
It's almost like we're kind of pissed at the Castro family for encouraging the Soviet Union to launch those nuclear missiles he had on his island. And maybe we'll even encourage friends and allies for being pissed at them too. And maybe, just maybe the companies that do business with Cuba are not welcome on our DNS servers.
You know, because of that whole trying to murder tens of millions of us and all.
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Cuba could have gone either way
Your statement doesn't make any sense to me. Before Castro, relations with the US were very strong. Cuba was a high end result for many US stars and powerful players before Castro came into power. Castro came in with a very anti-American position. In fact, many of the people that were executed when Castro came into power were executed under the assumption they were either CIA, a rat for the CIA, or someone who had strong ties to the US, and as such, posed a significant subversive risk to the new regime. Needless to say, saying, "Cuba could have gone either way", is a revisionist position. You seem to forget that Castro took power by mass murdering all that had ties to either the US or the old government (they were intrinsically tied). The second Castro took power, US relations were destroyed.
So we had a mass murdering thug with a fear of the US and socialist inclinations, in a position of extreme strategic value to the US. That most certainly does not position Castro to become a strong US ally. In fact, it made such a relationship all but impossible.
Cuba could have been an ally after that revolution,
I don't see how considering they executed some Americans, some CIA agents, and most every CIA plant/mole we had there. It is extremely unlikely since Castro also had socialist stance in how it approached things and actively worried about American subversion, and rightfully so. The Russians saw what was obvious and attempted to exploit it. Might things have been different? Sure? But unlikely.
So, historically, the US priority is hardly one of "no threat". It's one of "Castro out" and "we want control back" as well.
Yes, because we all know the Cuban Missile Crisis never happened. It's only been in the last decade, plus or minus a couple of years, where a "no threat" position can seriously be placed on the table. Considering one President after and another continues to see Cuba as a threat, it is unlikely that threat has entirely gone away.
So you really affirm my point...our lack of an embargo has to do with money. The only reason we opened up to China wasn't a change in "strategy" to bring down an oppressive regime. It was because Nixon and his buddies saw dollar signs. The embargo against Cuba is not having much effect on them economically is very true. But politically it gives them someone to blame in their brainwashing of their people. Open up trade with them and when American companies won't do business there because they get their profits taken then the people will know. It won't help either side much economically, but it gives them one less excuse. How exactly will opening up to Cuba kill our domestic sugar industry any more than the other Caribbean nations? Is there sugar that much better? That much bigger volume? Are they going to flood our markets? Give me a break.
You spelled "hysterical" wrong.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!