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All of them are Chinese owned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely . Geely, Polestar, Volvo, Zeekr, Smart, Lotus. All the same group
Did you mean to reply to a different comment? I don't see any of those on the mozillafoundation page, per @andsoitis.
Probably the stupid politician behind it didn't get the memo that Volvo is no longer a swedish company?
I think it's half this and half that Volvo is still a recognizable brand that Americans grew up with. My mother had a Volvo when I was seven. People would react if Volvo was banned. Polestar? What's that? But Geely can throw down the gauntlet by building Polestars and relabeling them Volvos.
Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027
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The feds also controlling who has access to AI models. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692995 It's all just this lawless personal fealty shit.
It would be better if the AI censorship was lawless, rather than authorized by the Arms Export Control Act of 1976, since that would allow the Article III branch of the federal government to be a defense against it. The lawfulness makes it worse.
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Correction: it is because a major Republican donor wants Chinese cars banned, because they beat the living shit out of his offerings on quality and value. It is silly to credulously pretend that the excuse about Chinese software has even a whiff of legitimacy.
It's hard to parse this without concluding that you are perhaps unaware that Volvo is Chinese.
(Though I thought that anybody as smart as you think you are would've inferred that without issue)
the main point to me here is that such decisions should be fully public including all the input info and all the reasoning that is behind the decision, similar to a court case. Instead we have that guessing game.