Markets not in everything

DHL are being fined almost $10m for breaching sanctions to Iran, Syria and Sudan.

Companies are allowed to ship "documents and informational material" but heinous, evil, nasty, DHL, slipped in some "personal items or consumer goods."

That is clearly the rational response to nasty undemocratic governments, punish their citizens by stopping their engagement with the outside world. Wait...

Previously underexplored methods of displacing evil dictators #42

Stop teenagers from chatting online to each other.

Its so obvious, its brilliant. How did nobody come up with this before? Give it half an hour and there'll be a new wave of democracy and freedom and openness and joy and light, spreading out across the world, just wait and see.

"A US computer industry giant [Microsoft] has moved to prevent Sudanese from using a messaging service [MSN], citing its obligations under the US sanctions regime against Sudan." Sudan Tribune