Opinion: Opinion | 'Sterilise Foreign Women', And Other American Fantasies About Citizenship
This opinion piece discusses the growing political rhetoric in the United States regarding borders and citizenship, contrasting it with the global nature of modern technology companies. The author highlights the disconnect between the borderless digital world and increasingly restrictive nationalistic political moods.
The world's richest technology entrepreneur increasingly speaks about borders. His companies are built on technologies designed to overcome geography, connect communities and ultimately carry humanity beyond Earth. Around the same time, an influential American conservative commentator suggested sterilising foreign women before they entered the United States. The proposal was outrageous and unlikely ever to become public policy. Yet it reflected a political mood that is becoming increasingly familiar across democracies.</p><!--dsk1-->
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