There’s a plethora of cia, nsa, “what have you” guys at OpenAI, Google, Meta, you name it — should every other country in the world ban US software?
Or are there “good” intelligence officers and “bad”?
The moment some backdoor is discovered in Kaspersky, it is done as a product all over the world. That’s the best protection about any alleged government connections exploiting the software.
The notion of open market, competition, democracy is only exercised when it is your products that should undermine the locals.
The moment it is not, you start hearing stuff like “overcapacity” (what a nice term) of china manufacturing — what a hypocrisy.
As soon as US starts loosing the positions, it wriggles just as any “dictatorship” protecting its interest by quickly dismissing the free market as it needs.