Us Considers Broad Software Curbs on China, White House Says
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The US is considering broad software curbs on China, sparking concerns about the impact on the tech industry and global trade; commenters discuss the potential effectiveness and unintended consequences of such restrictions.
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bigyabai
2 months ago
Terrible idea. If we curtail Chinese access to Teams, their productivity is guaranteed to skyrocket.
mitchbob
2 months ago
https://archive.ph/FfEeH
general1465
2 months ago
So they will reverse engineer the older version of critical software they already have and intermittently will use cracked software like Russians do.
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