[D]oes this result from our sanctions jive with how our State Department seems to want to encourage governments around the world to allow open communication through the internet and social media?
No, not really, but that's mostly because the Iran (and Cuba, etc.) sanctions are imposed not by the State Department, but by the Treasury Department, through the Office of Foreign Asset Controls. Both are executive agencies and at least nominally report to the president, but the policy priorities of executive agencies do not always align or make sense as a whole.
I am dying for Monster Energy Drink to meet Monster Cable in a no-holds-barred trademark-overenforcement cage match. How has this not happened already? Or have I missed it? Who caved to whom?
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Relationship to State Department policies
No, not really, but that's mostly because the Iran (and Cuba, etc.) sanctions are imposed not by the State Department, but by the Treasury Department, through the Office of Foreign Asset Controls. Both are executive agencies and at least nominally report to the president, but the policy priorities of executive agencies do not always align or make sense as a whole.
The Monsters of trademark enforcement
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