It’s not just to avoid sending data back but to recognize the national security threat of allowing an adversary country’s products to access American markets (o

It’s not just to avoid sending data back but to recognize the national security threat of allowing an adversary country’s products to access American markets (of users). It has implications for politics and technology competitiveness. When the adversary is an authoritarian communist dictatorship that provides no equal market access for American social media or search engines or whatever, I think a ban on everything is justified. In fact we should extend this beyond software, which is what tariffs would do.