Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei

Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by himinlomax on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:21PM (#35645736)

You said, literally. "Whatabout Saudi Arabia." That's called whataboutism.

Also SA is not worse than China. Saudi Arabia may have some modern day slavery going on, but China is depriving over a billion of basic freedoms and currently commiting genocide. They support North Korea, thr most oppressive regime on earth. They promote in their propaganda the worst mass murderer in History by far, Mao Zedong.

But as always, there's people like you to say "but whatabout so-and-so."

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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by myrmidon on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:40PM (#35648462)

I repeat: I'm NOT discussing the relative merits of the Chinese/Saudi regimes- I'm using the Saudis as a very recent example of how US foreign policy is clearly NOT primarily motivated by "spreading democratic values".

You have so far neither addressed any of my actual points nor have you tried to make arguments in favor of your view.

What are your precedents that give you such confidence that US foreign policy is primarily aimed at spreading democratic values instead of furthering US interests first and foremost?

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