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Kaspersky products are now banned in the US

www.xda-developers.com Kaspersky products are now banned in the US

The restriction of sales will begin next month

Kaspersky products are now banned in the US

If it ain't 'murican we ban 'em!

Guess all foreign cars should be next, what with all the telemetry and all...

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There are 195 countries in the world and the US has sanctions banning product imports of some kind from six of them:

Iran

Russia

Cuba

North Korea

Syria

Ukraine

Kaspersky is Russian software, and Russia is at war with one of our allies. To pretend this is xenophobic "banning anything not American", instead of a strike against a specific enemy, is more than a little disingenuous.
- Interesting how China is not on that list... ya know, where TikTok and DJI are?
  
  Because we don't ban things based on country very often, we ban things based on whether they are a threat.
  
  Interesting how you framed this as xenophobia so confidently, and now want to shift the goalposts.
Hell, kapersky should be banned everywhere