[Sanctions-Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 1, Issue 3

[J Scott Marcus]

Seems very reasonable to me. But I could also see an argument for 
blocking both Sputnik and RT in the first wave, which still makes for a 
small enough test list.


On 27/03/2022 11:55, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>> On Mar 27, 2022, at 11:48 AM, J Scott Marcus <scott at scottmarcus.com> wrote:
>> I hope that nobody minds if I jump into this discussion ...
> On the contrary!  Thank you for driving it forward!
>
>> The March 10 joint statement placed a high priority on targeting Russian military and propaganda entities. I would like to nominate Sputnik and RT (which do not seem to appear on the initial list that Niels and Bill posted) for the short list of "particular entities". They are preeminent arms of Russian propaganda, are already blocked for broadcasting in the EU, and are subject to a range of additional restrictions from various countries and firms.
>> https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/03/02/eu-imposes-sanctions-on-state-owned-outlets-rt-russia-today-and-sputnik-s-broadcasting-in-the-eu/
> If we’re trying this as, right now, an experiment, it would be good to have diversity in the list, while not trying to boil the ocean.
>
> I agree that we should sample a propaganda outlet, since we specifically noted that, and the EU specifically called them out.
>
> But, at an experimental stage, we could start with just one.  So, of Sputnik and RT, I nominate RT.
>
> We also called out military.  There are a number of actual operational military agencies in the government lists, I think we should pick one.
>
> There are also roughly a thousand individuals, which was something we weren’t deeply considering in the March 10 letter.  I propose we pick two of them, one high-profile, the other randomly-chosen from among the not-so-high-profile ones.
>
> That would give us four, for an experimental round.  Does that seem reasonable?  Should we try to do more, bearing in mind that it’s the OSINT group we’re making work for?
>
>                                  -Bill
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