Publishers Face Prison For Editing Articles from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya or Cuba. The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control recently declared that American publishers cannot edit works authored in nations under trade embargoes which include Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya and Cuba.
Although publishing the articles is legal, editing is a "service" and the treasury department says it is illegal to perform services for embargoed nations. It can be punishable by fines of up to a half-million dollars or jail terms as long as 10 years. (link)
So rendering any kind of service to citizens of certain countries (and that's what we're talking about here, not their governments) is now a crime. Laa hawla wa laa quwwata illa billah. What is the world coming to? Kudos to the American Chemical Society and every other group that is standing up against this abhorrent rule. [Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs]
In other words, anyone in the Department of Defense who edits a report sent by soldiers or colonial bureaucrats in Iraq maybe be imprisoned for up to 10 years because the works are authored in a nation under trade embargo. But of course laws don't apply to the government, so I won't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
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On this day six years ago Apple cancelled the Newton. I'm still using the same MessagePad 2100 that I was on that day (although I do have spares, just in case).