• dalë@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    They did the same to Huawei and lots followed. This has nothing to do with security and all to do with preventing China’s leap ahead of US as a global economic technology powerhouse

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      8 months ago

      It does have something to do with security.

      For Huawei, the USA was concerned that China could build in backdoors to its communication technology similar to how the USA probably does with its local technology.

      For EV, it is becoming apparent that battery and microchip technology has the same wartime industry power that oil and steel has, so the USA doesn’t want to completely give up on those industries.

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        8 months ago

        Everything has something to do with security if you’re paranoid/creative enough. It’s a useless thought.

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        For Huawei , if that’s the case why did US not target all Chinese manufacturers and only the one that, at the time, was becoming the most technologically competitive one.

        As for EV the argument regarding takeover as a wartime industry whilst maybe true not it still smacks of US protectionist practice rather than a genuine security fear.

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        8 months ago

        It’s not Huawei’s fault that outdated IP restrictions in the west put western companies at a disadvantage and slow innovation.

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          8 months ago

          Hahahaha that’s quite the euphemism for stealing everything they could get their grubby capitalist hands on

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              8 months ago

              When one group puts all the time, money, and effort into researching, discovering, and designing something, and another yoinks it for free, what do you call that?

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                Using? It’s definitely not stealing since no one was deprived of anything.