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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by ls612 on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:12AM (#48513501)
???

The government had passed a law appropriating funds to subsidize semiconductor manufacturing in the US and spent some of it buying intel stock. How is that the government seizing Intel at gunpoint? I mean aside from the libertarian argument that the taxation necessary to raise those funds is theft?

Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by lovich on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:42AM (#48513716)
Did you miss the part where it was already awarded to them, but the Trump admin then made it conditional?