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Stop manipulating our markets under the guize of national security or protecting Americans. If we need to be protected from bad behavior we need to be protected
by fitblipper 2mo ago
Stop manipulating our markets under the guize of national security or protecting Americans. If we need to be protected from bad behavior we need to be protected by all bad behavior regardless of it's origin.
Has back doors? Ban it. Has awful security around sensitive data? Ban it. Makes technology available to the masses that is a national security risk? Ban it(if you most). Why give US companies a pass on this? It's because the US government wants in on using the products with bad behavior while still trying to stop other governments the same power.
- cyanydeez 2mo agoUnfortunately, they're half in the bag of running the country like a business. People, the rich ones, the ones who manage this site and who buy things like twitter, CBS, CNN, etc etc, want this. This isn't anything more than grift for grift sake.
- echelon 2mo agoThe idea is to provide protection for incubating a local industry in what's deemed a key strategic sector. But that's not the best way to do it. See what the Jones Act did to US shipbuilding. We should make foreign companies manufacture here, just like China did. It also works as a jobs program and builds up and industrial base and skill, as we've seen with the Japanese automotive sector.
- OutOfHere 2mo agoThe idea is more nefarious than it. Domestic firms install tracking and backdoors usable by the US government, whereas foreign firms won't.
- duxup 2mo agoIt's not even about security. Likely just a maneuver for a bribe. Like TikTok and so on...