Can’t have the people using unsanctioned software.

Yup.

Nobody has ever died from nuclear waste.

Nuclear waste itself is a misnomer, there is no waste it’s just uneconomical to use at a certain point, it still has a ton of energy potential.

https://newrepublic.com/article/48426/sadly-there-such-thing-nuclear-waste

If people stopped being hysterical about a technology they don’t understand we could probably develop it.

It could also be seen as rising standards of living, and aristocrats were optimizing their advantage before the standards rose for everyone due to cheap energy availability.

Saying people consume meat to mimic the rich is a little silly.

Like a PRISM for China, is every powerful country just backdooring each other?

Read project 2025, it views India as the most aggregious.

Which has the highest tariffs.