that plus the following: > us government and nsa keep a bunch of zero-day exploits, backdoors, and other shit in their pockets to spy on americans without warrants > one of these exploits is a legitimate backdoor in almost every mobile device, it's baked into the fucking chip architecture, they use it for wiretapping americans > chinese uncover said backdoor exploit and use it to grab a bunch of sensitive data and proprietary info from some peoples' phones > government is forced to admit in the after-action report that yes, everyone's phone is backdoored from the factory, no, you can't remove it, yes, they use it for wiretaps on americans "but only with warrants" > because it's baked into the chip architecture they'd have to retool the entire fab set for the chip and force americans to throw away a fuckton of phones > instead of this they would rather further totally exclude the chinese from any american economic activity by banning tiktok, further tarriffing chinese shit, and banning tp-link routers it has to do with the us government absolutely being worse than the chinese government in terms of spying on americans 24/7 and being worried that their backdoor exploits will continue to be found out.
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