alt Hacker NewsThe authority under which this was done has been operative and actively used for several decades. It isn't a partisan issue, it is a policy of American governance. Anyone that has worked on frontier "dual use" technologies will be familiar with the legal regime.
The only thing that changed is people are writing articles about it in the news media.
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sagarm • today at 2:17 AM
Jumping in to reflexively defend the admin again, I see.
Is there any policy from this admin you don't support?
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davesque • today at 3:06 AM
Also known as, the tu quoque fallacy. Just because politicians in both parties have been doing this for decades doesn't mean that this administration is not especially hypocritical for doing it after whinging so much about free speech and free markets.
But it was applied using principles of the rule of law with clear regulatory frameworks. This is not that