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Re:Briar Project by suizi on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:27AM (#24034734)
Authoritarian regimes are often far less technologically advanced than free countries. They will often import technology from free countries and be constrained by whatever freedom respecting decisions they've made.
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Re:Briar Project by skrebbel on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:46AM (#24034823)
China is an authoritarian regime that is as technologically advanced as the US and Western Europe, and they will gladly export freedom restricting technology.
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Re:Briar Project by new2628 on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:25AM (#24035006)
This is like saying that the weapons advanced countries sell to less advanced countries are more "life-respecting".
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Re:Briar Project by londons_explore on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:30AM (#24036073)
Imagine a world where a gun sold is by the US to a poor wartorn nation. When the trigger is pulled, it does facial recognition to figure out who it is aimed at, and if it detects someone friendly to US interests, it will refuse to hit them.
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Re:Briar Project by eeZah7Ux on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:02AM (#24036596)
> Imagine a world where a gun sold is by the US to a poor wartorn nation

There is no need to imagine it.

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