It is impressive how many people don’t understand the actual stakes of that law in this thread.
Let’s look at a similar situation by changing the country names. Right now, most advanced microchips used in the US are made in Taiwan.
Imagine for two seconds what would happen if Taiwan passed a bill that all produced microchip must contain a non-removable tracker that sends all data processed by that chip to the Taiwanese intelligence agency (pretend it’s technically possible)
Do you think the US would continue importing chips from Taiwan? Sure banning them might hurt the tech industry and all, but if they don’t, in a strategic standpoint, it’s hybris at best, stupidity at worst.
Well that’s pretty much what the US is doing with cloud act. Of course their products are going to get forbidden. You just don’t engage in overt mass spying on your allies, that’s in bad taste.
Let’s look at a similar situation by changing the country names. Right now, most advanced microchips used in the US are made in Taiwan.
Imagine for two seconds what would happen if Taiwan passed a bill that all produced microchip must contain a non-removable tracker that sends all data processed by that chip to the Taiwanese intelligence agency (pretend it’s technically possible)
Do you think the US would continue importing chips from Taiwan? Sure banning them might hurt the tech industry and all, but if they don’t, in a strategic standpoint, it’s hybris at best, stupidity at worst.
Well that’s pretty much what the US is doing with cloud act. Of course their products are going to get forbidden. You just don’t engage in overt mass spying on your allies, that’s in bad taste.