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coliveira ◴[] No.23836559[source]
We will end up like cavemen if we start to banish every new technology coming from China based on racism. China will not stop developing new technology just because the US doesn't like it.
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justwalt ◴[] No.23836692[source]
I don’t think people dislike Chinese tech because it’s made by Chinese people, but rather because the Chinese government is assumed to have some hand in it. Best faith interpretation and all that, right?
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coliveira ◴[] No.23836891[source]
Technology has no political badges or flags. First of all, scientists and engineers are not political actors. Moreover, I have all the right to use a technology if I want it, even if it was developed in a totalitarian regime. For the US to prevent me from using this technology is infringing on my freedoms.
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1. thekyle ◴[] No.23837140[source]
What freedoms does banning Chinese products infringe? I'm pretty sure that the national government has the right to control international trade in the same way that the state governments have a right to control interstate trade.