Well, this is an iterated prisoner’s dilemma.

I’d say maybe it’s more like a Roko’s Basilisk. He knew the potential existence of an embargo, but didn’t do anything to protect the embargo. So now that the embargo turned out to be real, he will be punished. Otherwise if he truly did not know an embargo could even exist, he could not be blamed.

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syrrim 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

There was no embargo. If there's an "embargo" but parties not subject to the embargo know about it... there's no embargo.

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adastra22 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Except he won’t be punished, because nothing he did was legally wrong.

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		He won't be punished by the legal system.
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		In the tech industry, there are punishments far worse than the legal system.