[fooooobarbaz]

The clipper chip comes to mind. Of course "progress" is a relative term, but NSA surely saw it as progress. Companies like Uber are now leaving some European cities[0] after facing a more adversarial political environment than they do in the states.

I've also heard stories about places like Uruguay, which have laws that apparently protect some workers from automation and self-service (i.e. attended gas stations, etc.)

0: https://thenextweb.com/news/uber-forced-leave-brussels-what-...

[dragonwriter]

> The clipper chip comes to mind.

But...technological progress on cryptographic hardware didn’t stop just because that particular attempt to foist a precompromised system onto the market failed. (Neither did the social technology of the NSA manipulating the market to adopt their precompromised systems.)

So how is that a movement stopping technological progress?

[thewebcount]

It’s not just Uruguay. I think both New Jersey and Oregon forbid drivers to pump their own gas. [0]

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/states-wher...