bye bye free speech in US?

[Nadia Talent]

A piece of good news: the Berman amendment does have some power. While
clearly a strong precedent, the ruling mentioned below is apparently
specific to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> 1. U.S. Lifts Restrictions on IEEE Publishing
>> The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control
>> (OFAC) ruled on 2 April that the IEEE's publishing process is exempt
>> from OFAC regulations and licensing requirements for scholarly papers
>> submitted by authors from Cuba, Iran, Libya, and Sudan. For more
>> information about the ruling, visit
>> <http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?
>> pageID=corp_level1&path=newsinfo&file=OFACruling.xml&xsl=generic.xsl>
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