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This is not some small business making minim salaries for the owners. Not your typical corner store who's owners cannot afford the tickets. How fun it would be if all 10 countries block Facebook for a couple of years, now THAT would be fun!! That would teach these thugs a lesson or two about 'corporate responsibility'.

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Not sure that this would be legal in many countries. Not showing up is not a crime. Besides, were I Facebook, I would put my best men to work on anti-censorship technology posthaste. Airlift in slips of paper with tor bridges written on them; I don't care. They would figure something out.

No it is not. So the law-makers should pass a law that says: " when you do business in this country, we pay for your ticket and your time and you bring your a$$ over when we ring the bell, or else you a) better be in a hospital sick as hell so we justify the absence, or b) we shut your business down until you show your face".

These thugs should be held accountable. Giving BS excuses about "oh we dropped the ball on the last 10 elections" doesn't cut it. Maybe some citizens are to meek or irresponsible or ignorant; this doesn't mean that these thugs should get a pass.

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