Five lawsuits were filed in Texas this week, putting some of the biggest names in PC tech under an uncomfortable spotlight, as their components are still being found in Russian weaponry.
As someone who saw a dust cloud from my balcony from a nearby ballistic strike (in addition to nearby buildings getting hit by Shahed debris) I don’t think financial penalties alone are a good solution. A real solution would require all executives at US semiconductor companies whose products have been found in russian weaponry to be sent to mandatory live-in community service in Ukraine for a period of at least 24 months.
Live in community service would include de-mining work, repair work in Chernobyl power station shelter, junior janitor work in military hospital and frontline aid services (they can help distribute aid to older citizens near the frontline, perhaps even do tech device repair work and support). Reviews of high end restaurants in Kyiv does not count as community service.
The undeniable evidence of their criminal negligence can be seen all around Ukraine. Then there is an issue of framing. Imagine a hypothetical US-based fentanyl precursor manufacturer being found to be in-directly supplying the Sinaloa cartel. If they don’t have connections to senior corruption structures, the attitude towards them in the US (be it the public or the courts) would be completely different from how semiconductor executives will be treated in this case.
Emotionally I do get you, practically there won’t be any reprecussions for these companies.
We should have made nukes or another type of wmd in these 4 years, without our own Samson option m*scovia won’t be stopped.
Agreed, I didn’t mean to imply anything would happen. Definitely not any actions that would change the executives attitudes.
If this was peak of the cold war (say the 80s), then maybe. But now is a different time.
Nah, not even in the 80s. What really makes me angry that there were companies in UA that still worked for m*scovian military in 25, american ones I could at least understand from cinical standpoint.
lol if we cannot hold gun companies accountable for gun deaths, good fucking luck holding tech companies accountable with even more links in the chain!
