Could someone "in the know" elaborate on what specifically prompted them to contemplate this? e.g. They mention concerns from enterprise customers. I commend

Could someone "in the know" elaborate on what specifically prompted them to contemplate this? e.g. They mention concerns from enterprise customers. I commend the transparency of debating it in the open, but I suspect it'll get hard to maintain reasonable discourse once the issue hits mainstream headlines and becomes sensationalized. The suggestion does feel like a giant cudgel. I get there are genuine concerns, and I don't have better ideas to offer. I can't help feeling bad for legitimate future job applicants who will feel discriminated against. I'm sure if a bad actor wants to do something adversarial, they'll find ways around it (like agents in a non-banned country). It used to feel like attitudes of major world powers were slowly converging (Russia got some democrazy, China started to open up its economy, tolerance seemed to be growing). Now it scares me how fast they're diverging. Politics is seeping deeper into tech, and it's going to get more fervent. Curtailing trade is loosening the ties between disparate cultures (https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/peace-earth-free-trade-men https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/peace-earth-fre...). The internet was supposed to connect us all and help bring us closer together. What happened?