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by dragonwriter 1034 days ago
Correction:

US Government: You have to careful about potentially leaking export controlled material, or your employees will be held personally responsible and go to jail. Also, you have to comply with non-discrimination law while doing that.

SpaceX: Okay, so we’ll ignore non-discrimination law and excuse it as “being careful about potentially leaking export controlled material”.

US Government: WTF?
1 comments
AlchemistCamp 1034 days ago
It's almost like the US government is trying to ensure DoD dollars don't go very far.

More importantly, from a national security perspective, it doesn't make sense to exempt every refugee and asylee from ITAR restrictions. The benefit is negligible to the typical refugee and the risk is immense.

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dragonwriter 1034 days ago
> More importantly, from a national security perspective, it doesn’t make sense to exempt every refugee and asylee from ITAR restrictions.

Justifying workplace discrimination on a generally prohibited bases on the basis of “well, if the government regulations that we are relying on to justify our discrimination were revised in a way that we feel makes better policy sense, they would require the discrimination we are doing, even though they explicitly do not as currently written” is…probably not an argument that will succeed in any US court.

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AlchemistCamp 1034 days ago
Your comment is completely tangential to the point I was making.

My primary concern isn't "succeeding in any US court". I'm not involved with SpaceX or the job applicants who were passed over. My concern is much more around the use of tax revenues, the overall security of the country and the stability of the world order. There are a multitude of cases the DOJ could be taking on right now. That this is what they choose to litigate is a clear warning sign.

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