• hark@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Only pure all-American spyware on my machine. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅

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    3 months ago

    Country in a trade war / cold war with another country decides to block imports of some product from said other country, citing fears of the product being poisoned. It’s barely news.

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      3 months ago

      It’s news. That’s all that matters. Duh. Sheesh.

      Also this is actually a pretty unique and interesting scenario. You ever seen a digital embargo of software from a single country imposed on citizens? Not to mention the dignity and rights violations on both sides…

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        3 months ago

        Yes, I’ve seen digital embargoes preventing companies in other countries doing business in mine, because their legal environment differs from ours.

        Google Analytics got banned in several European countries comes to mind. I remember some small blogs writing about that, not much else.

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      3 months ago

      I’m not sure how that’s relevant. People should be free to use whatever they want. I’m not interested in Russian software, but that doesn’t mean banning it is okay. The same goes for Chinese software like TikTok (not touching that), Iranian software, or North Korean software, if that’s even a thing. I don’t care if literal Nazis made the software, people should be free to use what they want.

      The only areas the government should get involved are:

      • government owned devices
      • public advisories
      • prosecution of crimes where the software is involved

      The software I choose to use is not the government’s business. If I violate a law, charge me with a crime, but don’t preemptively ban stuff.

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    3 months ago

    You’d think the fact that Kaspersky is useless would be enough to keep people from using it.