It also plays excellently into their shameless regulatory capture agenda. The cybersecurity risks have a kernel of truth to them, as with any good lie. But when everything going on is aligned with extreme financial incentives, it's worthwhile to not take the news at face value.

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djierardi 6 hours ago | parent [-]

If you want regulatory capture, you have to capture the world, not just the US.

	▲	Gormo 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The US remains the largest economy in the world. If you succeed in regulatory capture there, and use it to exclude foreign competitors from the US, you've still captured a market worth hundreds of billions.
	▲	djierardi 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Exactly. And with the whole world just a few months behind, the question is whether there's an endgame other than stalemate.