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They certainly can restrict technology that is deemed to be a national security risk.
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Not much stops them from saying it's due to national security, when it's actually due to the guy in the chair having a fit of emotions. And the current admin has a very long streak of declaring things as national emergencies when those things just so happen to be something they recently lost face on.
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It is kinda amazing how quickly everybody else is to support authoritarianism if it agrees with some perceived slight of theirs.

I guess that is how it always starts.

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