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by jjtheblunt 381 days ago
What's an example of a US company being weaponized in a trade war?
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I wrote "can become".

We are just one executive order away.

Just look what they try with Harvard. The EU is an easier target. Just ban M365 for EU use.

Think of this at a larger scale

https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/british-icc-chief-prosecuto...

There are plenty, but most obvious nvidia which cannot even ship gpus to greenland currently.
Is there a ton of industry reeling on that issue? Or is that closer to a silly example?
Ask Switzerland who only got restricted access to AI chips.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multinational-companies/us-rest...

We still remeber the Crypto Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

Currently we are at Backdoor Wars

https://github.com/howinfo/howinfo/wiki/Backdoor