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Title is misleading, the action taken prevents all US companies from selling them a wide range of technology products.
by ryan-c 12y ago
Title is misleading, the action taken prevents all US companies from selling them a wide range of technology products.
- fspeech 12y agoWhat other components in their supercomputers require end user licensing and are exclusively supplied by US companies?
- colechristensen 12y agoI believe it is somewhat of a poison pill, pick one: * Don't do business in the U.S. * Don't sell certain high technology assets to non-allied foreign powers. In a similar theme, Swiss banks are free to practice as much secrecy as they want but _only_ if they keep their business out of the United States. They haven't been and as such the justice department has been smashing them with billion dollar fines for tax evasion and money laundering. Several hundred years old banks have been forced to close because of this.
- fspeech 12y ago"End-Use control" is burdensome on any high volume commodity product. Without requiring end-use control there is no stopping a middleman outside of US reach from selling on the products to someone else. This is different from banking as we are talking about commodity parts here. For example, Iranian nuclear enrichment plants allegedly used Siemens controllers, c.f. Stuxnet.