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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by Glyptodon on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:42AM (#50478838)
I think there's got to be more variety of differentiation between being an agent of national interest as a national of a nation and being a spy. It takes more than acting in America's interest for an American business person to be an "agent" or a "spy."

This isn't to discount the issues with NVIDIA and whether they knowingly participated in circumventing chip bans. Or conflict of interest issues. But running a business that benefits China as a Chinese national and making some reports to the nation just doesn't seem like "spy" to me any more than being part of the British East India company made a Brit a spy.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by rdtsc on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:20AM (#50480571)
Yeah it’s one of those things anyone can argue either way. To some, unless they find a Chinese spy school diploma with her name she won’t be “spy”. That’s just not how it works. There are various levels of involvement and recruitment. All the way down to being an unwitting cooperator (for all she knows, she is helping a business associate or friend in Singapore source GPUs) or something like that.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by mosura on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:06AM (#50483682)
While in truth the problem is she is ethnically chinese and thus obviously guilty.

That is the result of this: every person of Chinese ethnicity with enough clout is now known to be assumed to be a spy in the eyes of the NYT.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by Betelbuddy on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:12AM (#50483766)
Given the current organ extraction system from criminals in China, and the 100% control by the party, any Chinese citizen who happens to be in a position of interest to the CCP, either in China or outside, and gets a call to help the Motherland will know the options...

Have you talked to Jack Ma lately ?

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by mosura on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:16AM (#50483823)
Does this thinking apply to people of all ethnicities or just the Chinese?

This whole episode is simply the US equivalent of Jack Ma with added puritanism.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ffsm8 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:42PM (#50486972)
You're completely brainrotten if you think that.

Jack Ma vanished for merely speaking out against the Chinese party.

Jensen enabled China to build out the AI infrastructure it needed to get their models just shy of the SOTA models.

I'm not even pro USA (as I'm not American and we've been fucked over by then enough times), but equating literally enabling a foreign country in subverting your own is a large difference to Jack Ma whoes only crime was saying the Chinese party is destroying Chinas future with it's corruption and needs to be removed... (And he didn't even say that much, his statement was was tamer I just cba looking it up and am speaking from memory)

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by franktankbank on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:28AM (#50480669)
Seems the label is unimportant.