so that we can start a cold war. Russia has dropped off as a threat now that they can't take a nation the size of California and the GDP of Mississippi. EVs will gradually make the middle east irrelevant too.

Without a threat they'll be a winding down our military spending, so China's on tap. For their part I'm sure they could use a little of the old MIC to keep their economy going. Not the best way to do socialism but I guess it works after a fashion.

I can't help thinking about a hidden agenda. Manufacturing moved to China so we now pay American prices for Chinese products sold by American companies. Due to the internet and business developments, consumers can sometimes buy Chinese products from Chinese companies at Chinese prices which are often a small fraction of the American price. Incidentally, Chinese products are much more likely to be repair friendly and have good availability of off the shelf 3rd party replacement parts.

I have to wonder how much of the trade war is American companies (or their wealthy owners) wanting to cut that access off wherever they can before this becomes common knowledge among American consumers.

Well... it depends area can be constrained by a lot.

Don't say the quiet part out loud. For decades pot-related products like bongs got around the letter of the law by not using the words "pot" or "marijuana".

Their sin doesn't seem to be the ability, but rather the advertised intent.

That's "the mailbox belonging to google is full - please try again later".

And this also shows why many in the US we are obese and less healthy. Many people have no time to eat healthy food. Only the very well off can. That is one of the reasons why many people in poor neighborhoods tend to be heaver and have a shorter life span.

Microsoft does this periodically to drive sales for their OEMs. It's why Vista was so dog slow. It was literally meant to sell more hardware. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

If a certain banana-coloured fellow becomes president the US market for these might be unavailable.

We really need a new party - call it the party of the young.
Platform should be
1) a 65 year retirement age for all Political office
2)Social security to be defunded and the funds used to payoff college debt.
3) The kids can take care of their parents in old age if they dont have the burden of college loans.
4) After age 70 you will have to pass a mental competency test every 2 years to be allowed to vote.

If such a party comes to power all this stupidity will stop.

Google was founded using DARPA grants. So by your logic Google is a division of the US military?

So same reason as facebook wont sell to China?

Or they do not want to hand over control to the US govt which will use the algorithms to push a pro-US agenda. Dont tell me you believe the West is any more moral than the Chinese? If so I have this CISCO router I would like to sell you. I will even give you the NSA embedded algorithms for no charge.

You can't effectively have free speech if you also have to comply with so-called "hate speech" regulation. That is the main issue.

Patents are pretty much useless in the software industry. People just steal whatever they want. By the time a case gets through court, its useless anyway as something better has replaced it.

Eventually the dumb folks who believe everything will be bankrupt, homeless and starving and will die out. Smarter human race will emerge. For too long we have taken care of the stupid out of a sense of charity and it has created an idiocracy. Time for some winnowing. Yes there will be some collateral damage. Always is. To speed it up please legalize all drugs and ban narcan.