If it ain’t 'murican we ban 'em!

Guess all foreign cars should be next, what with all the telemetry and all…

  • voracitude@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There are 195 countries in the world and the US has sanctions banning product imports of some kind from six of them:

    • Iran
    • Russia
    • Cuba
    • North Korea
    • Syria
    • Ukraine

    Kaspersky is Russian software, and Russia is at war with one of our allies. To pretend this is xenophobic “banning anything not American”, instead of a strike against a specific enemy, is more than a little disingenuous.

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      6 months ago

      Interesting how China is not on that list… ya know, where TikTok and DJI are?

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        6 months ago

        Because we don’t ban things based on country very often, we ban things based on whether they are a threat.

        Interesting how you framed this as xenophobia so confidently, and now want to shift the goalposts.

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          6 months ago

          The goalposts remain the same. We’ll see what happens if Trump wins.