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poor florida. i feel so bad for the humans stuck there.

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Half of me wants to leave. The other half will be damned if I give up my state. I’m staying and I’m voting.

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Good luck, we’re all counting on you.

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Need to run for office because voting isn’t enough we need rise up and take our states back.

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To be honest I can’t blame them for the ban. Chinese espionage is totally rampant and there is no IP too small for them to steal.

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Yeah, ok. I’m sure Florida universities have things worth stealing that literally every business in the US doesn’t. This is performative at best. Racist at worst.

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All of my lab’s data is available on public GitHub repos. My Chinese student doesn’t have a leg up on anyone with an internet connection. It’s insane to discriminate like that. I can sort of see issues with DoD funded work, but basic science?

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The latter seems likely.

But my point is actually that he’s (at best) trying to cover a single hole of a sieve. It’s not accomplishing anything.

If this were a real problem to be solved, it would need to be done at the federal level, and not just against Chinese nationals. If it really were a risk to the states, it should be all foreign nationals in all colleges.

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Wtf - should we also go after the blacks and the Jews too?

Shit is a slippery slope. What next, need a ancestry .com DNA report?

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That’s just silly. This is about the CCP and their fucked-up ideas of weaponising every travelling citizen they can.

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Why don’t we just ban Chinese people from visiting America then? That seems like it would solve the problem.

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The issue is their government’s encouragement if not enforcement of IP theft, not a person’s genetics.

I was going to say ‘ it’s not about culture’ but actually it is, because the culture of China currently is pretty toxic.

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Chinese espionage is totally rampant> Chinese espionage is totally rampant

Please show me a reputable source documenting how rampant Chinese espionage is on university campuses and how they’re stealing American IPs.

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I don’t have any to hand, sorry. Not going to go looking for your sake either. Search engines are available to you also.

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I did a brief Google search prior to making my comment and found nothing, so I figured I’d ask you. It does seem like the kind of claim that someone would make based on mere prejudice. I take your refusal to provide evidence as a sign that it is, indeed, baseless.

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