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Why wouldn't the current US government be shouting this from the rooftops if it was actually true?

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but IT isn’t really taken very serious outside of IT. I mean, they want money from it, but you don’t get money by telling the world that your primary tech companies are compromised.

Though judging by the replies, I think Bloomberg needs some really solid sources, so there is probably nothing to it.

The US government argued for years that chips needed to be made inside the US - which they were for certain military applications. Then, President Clinton allowed huge technology transfers from the US to China, and the US was no longer making its own chips for military applications.

Because at least half of the people wouldn't believe them and consider this another conspiracy theory. Even when Bloomberg pushed this there are still so many deniers in this thread.

Hell, how many conspiracy theory's have come out as true in since 2001.

Remember the "The telephone companies are routing all our calls and internet data to the NSA" conspiracy.

A bunch of people said that was fake, and there was no way this could happen.

Then more evidence came out, and the same people said there was no way that could happen, its too big of conspiracy and it would have leaked way before then.

Then the government gave the telco's retroactive immunity for spying on the public.

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