[snapcaster]

Sorry but this comment is just totally wrong. Look into weapons exports that applied to cryptography, google providing android to Huawei, etc. etc. etc. etc. i mean jeez you don't have to look far for counterpoints to what you're saying

[generalizations]

Yeah, they tried to limit crypto exports. Remember that munitions t-shirt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars#/media/File:Muniti... You can put any regulations you want on the books - the point is that enforcing them can become laughably infeasible.

[AmericanChopper]

How can people (especially on this forum) know that crypto export controls existed, but not know that they were struck down for violating 1A?…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

[snapcaster]

I guess we maybe differ here on what would constitute success for suppression. I see it as a "success" because the law stood for so long despite being pretty apparently unconstitutional. It is fair to see it as a failure since it eventually was overturned. Maybe the crux here is I probably agree with you that permanent suppression is impossible but temporary is super doable and temporary can be a fairly large fraction of a human lifetime so I still count it

[AmericanChopper]

I guess that’s an interesting way to backpedal without acknowledging how outright wrong your highly dogmatic comment was. There was a time in the past when there could be some merit to where you’ve chosen to move the goalposts. But there is now, and has been for some time, a higher court precedent that invalidates this position.

[snapcaster]

What do you mean? they were banned, the company i was working for almost went under because we were banned from providing any technology to a chinese tech company. That did get reversed but only after almost destroying the company. The android OS was caught up in that as well. How are these not suppressions?