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by Arnt 348 days ago
It's plausible deniability. Someone at Huawei presumably thinks there's a chance that exporting this to Europe might be a legal problem at some point in the future. So they added a restriction, enough for plausible deniability.
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It's not exactly "plausible deniability" in the common sense of the term.

It's not supposed to make them appear as plausibly denying that some European can download and use this.

It's role is to signal that if someone does, it's on him, not them, and he wont have any support, liability claims, etc as if they could if it was a product intended for their use.