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Not really.

There are lots of local semiconductor companies (Infineon, Bosch). This money would be better spent on them.

A lot.

Some of the current German leaders (like Annalena Baerbock) are too subservient to American corporate interests.

America is not part of Europe. No reason to spend European money supporting American companies.

Sitting empty due to American meddling.

Increasing trade with Russia is a good strategy. No need to follow America to WW3 or a new cold war.

Trump was yet another demonstration that Americans can't be trusted.

My point is that as a taxpayer in Germany, I don't want to subsize an American company. Better to invest in local companies like Infineon or Bosch.

Subsidizing an American company is not necessary for Germany's security. In fact, it undermines it.

True, I forgot Gitea!

You don't need to create an Intel competitor from scratch. For example the same money can be better invested in Infineon, ASML, Bosch or a number of local companies that work on chips. Or it could be put into RISC-V work.

I consider it unethical for my tax euros to subsidize an American company.

You can invest 5.5 billion to create local companies, instead of subsidizing an American one.

Russia is not going to invade Germany. Stop spreading nonsense.

> The origin of the company is irrelevant if they respect basic norms.

This is not correct. American govenment has a habit of using American companies to push foreign policy objectives.

Intel was going to buy them anyway, regardless of where the fab is built.

I don't want my tax money filling the coffers of an American monopoly.

It's time to move away from GitHub. There are better alternatives such as Codeberg or Gitlab.

This is a very bad policy. We should instead invest in local companies, not a American monopoly like Intel.

This is one of the most ridiculous things I read in a very long time.

Why does it concern those 1500 people how I decide to store my money? What's next, regulating where I can spend my money and where I can't?

There is nothing responsible about the government interfering in things it should not be interfering with.

It's a closed source app. Translation: you and I don't know what it does. Take it apart all you want, but you're not going to find any backdoors or learn about how good the E2EE implementation is. Claiming otherwise is ridiculous.

> There are legal avenues for whistleblowing through IGs and/or Congress.

Do these ever work?

The people you are blowing the whistle to are the same ones doing the shady illegal stuff.

This is my point exactly. It doesn't matter as long as the app is closed source. You could do the worlds most secure E2EE implementation, but then send a copy of all keys to Facebook servers.

This makes no sense. There is nothing to prove that that WhatsApp is really using the aformentioned Signal code. It's closed source, so it could be anything inside.

Most Apple software is buggy and annoying.

Blocking competitor websites is anti-competitive behaviour under EU law.

It's trivially easy to encrypt the traffic and then send a copy of the private key to Facebook's servers. You would not be able to decrypt it, but they would.

> Honest question because I don’t understand most of the comments on this submission: what’s supposed to be the issue with cooperating with law enforcement?

Depends on the laws they are enforcing. There is a very thin line between law enforcement and outright spying and authoritarian opression.

> WhatsApp more secure than Telegram

Why is that? With WhatsApp client being closed source, we simply don't know if it really is doing E2EE at all.