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Re:US blocks shipments of semiconductors to Huawei by boomboomsubban on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:38AM (#23191442)
>This after previous indictments of Huawei for RICO violations and theft of trade secrets from USA companies T-Mobile, Qualcomm, and Cisco

Refusing to sell chips to them incentivizes further theft of intellectual property. If these two things are linked, this seems like a terrible strategy.

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Re:US blocks shipments of semiconductors to Huawei by DyslexicAtheist on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:18AM (#23191812)
we shouldn't punish a thief because they might steal even more? that doesn't sound right.
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Re:US blocks shipments of semiconductors to Huawei by boomboomsubban on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:48AM (#23192100)
>we shouldn't punish a thief because they might steal even more?

We shouldn't punish theft in a way where stealing now becomes their best option to survive.

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