It is astounding how posters here are bending over backwards to deny all responsibility. Russia is using American parts to kill Ukrainians. It doesn't matter where the parts were manufactured or how they got the parts. Why doesn't anyone here understand this?
If someone picks up a brick and smashes someone’s head in, does it particularly matter who made the brick?
Statistically, the most widely made bricks would be ‘at fault’. But how does that matter, exactly?
You can try to ban bricks from your country, which hey, maybe it could happen. But if they were having a brick shortage, couldn’t they just buy the same bricks from a neighboring country, since these items are so cheap
and common, it’s not like it’s possible to serialize and track each one.
If the brick has the company's logo on it, I'm sure it will be great for sales and general impressions. What is commonly believed, even if entirely wrong, can have detrimental effects. It certainly isn't a good thing what was discovered about Russian drones, and it certainly does matter. Remington didn't kill those children, and you can get guns anywhere, so you tell me why Remington settled for $73M. This is a very easy thing to understand. It is amazing how stubbornly dumb intelligent individuals can sometimes be.
Bwahah. Folks do hit pieces all the time on companies to do some thing - extract some money (like with Remington), or try to force some change (like the Ukrainians trying to ‘name and shame’ companies to cause a larger chilling effect for suppliers and start folks like TI cracking down on their supply chain).
TI not manufacturing those chips won’t stop Iran using identical chips though. It’s one of many ‘try all the things’ tactics from a belligerent at war. And I can’t blame them for trying. I’m sure it will cause some minor issues here and there for Iran and Russia, and every little bit helps.
It’s still transparent bullshit and manipulation of the public.
The part I have to laugh at is arguments like this that take the manipulation at face value, and go after folks pointing out it’s bullshit on a technical site.
It would be like going on a Gun forum and going after folks pointing out the Remington smear campaigns (or any number of other manufacturers) was transparent bullshit to try to get cash or force them out of business by those ideologically opposed to them.
Like what do you expect but a bunch of folks going ‘that’s bullshit’?
They chose to settle after sufficient pressure and wild accusations were brought to bear publicly no?
If the lawsuit was kept confidential and not turned into a high profile socio-political football being used to target them, then I think you might have a point, as the case could be about matters of law and fact.
But it wasn’t, was it?
One would call that ‘forced’ in most contexts. If it wasn’t in the context of an active lawsuit, perhaps even extortion. But lawyers get a pass for this, of course.
