[HN Gopher] Which side needs to build a wall to keep people from...
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       Which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping?
       Thats the bad one
        
       Author : 323
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-12-18 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Tanjreeve wrote:
       | Leaving aside the hypocrisy angle of mastodon et Al. This is
       | opinion dressed in the language of facts. Loads of places have
       | contracts like "if you leave early you have to pay us back".
       | Running your society like that is a political choice. The Chinese
       | government would probably say the society that poaches doctors
       | from poor communities is the bad one.
        
       | mannyv wrote:
       | He's not wrong.
       | 
       | You don't see a lot of people trying to get into Cuba, North
       | Korea, China, the former USSR, etc.
       | 
       | "I want to start a new and better life in COMMUNIST_COUNTRY_HERE"
       | - said nobody.
        
         | paranoidrobot wrote:
         | I think you missed the context that Twitter is now reportedly
         | banning links to Mastodon.
         | 
         | This is an apparent attempt to slow down or prevent people
         | leaving Twitter.
        
         | pavlov wrote:
         | "I want to start a new life in the USSR" was a thing between
         | 1918-33 roughly. Many Western communists emigrated to build the
         | workers' paradise.
         | 
         | As foreigners they were of course particularly suspicious in
         | Stalin's paranoid purges, and most ended up dead or in Siberia.
         | 
         | After WWII everyone in the West pretty much understood the
         | Stalinist reality and not even the staunchest Soviet apologists
         | would actually want to move there.
        
         | pavlov wrote:
         | "I want to start a new life in the USSR" was actually a popular
         | thing between 1918-33 roughly. Many Western communists did
         | emigrate to build the workers' paradise.
         | 
         | As foreigners they were of course particularly suspicious in
         | Stalin's paranoid purges, and most ended up dead or in Siberia.
         | 
         | After WWII everyone in the West pretty much understood the
         | Stalinist reality and not even the staunchest Soviet apologists
         | would actually want to move there.
        
       | croes wrote:
       | See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040165
        
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