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Ubiquiti, a $33 billion tech empire, is led by Robert Pera, owner of the Memphis Grizzlies. He pledged to tighten controls on his products years ago — so why are Russian military units sending Ubiquiti vendors thank-you notes?

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That’s… difficult in practice. Especially since the people involved in trying to circumvent sanctions and get this sort of shit to the Russians don’t just order things directly. In the interest of confusing and delaying legal repercussions for anyone involved, there tends to be lots of misdirection. To your point around money laundering: you’re kidding yourself if you think that sort of thing has been completely quashed.

    • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      I understand. Nor am I naive enough to think it’s even possible to completely address money laundering or sanction workarounds.

      It’s almost certain they have a lackadaisical (if not out right malicious) approach to limiting shipments that end up in russia. I am genuinely curious, is there a reason to believe otherwise?

        • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          That’s a fair question.

          Look at say Nvidia and import controls of enterprise GPUs into China. A highly politically and PR sensitive topic. Something that is arguably a bigger deal (for Nvidia) than breaking sanctions/restrictions on russia.

          And yet it turned out that Nvidia had knowledge that around the same time that export restrictions on China were implemented (with their “topline” China shipment numbers declining), there was a massive increase in shipments to Singapore (a trade focused polity with a long history a ethnic-Chinese presence in local business communities).

          Did Nvidia act upon this or did just decided to assume that “goly gee, it just so happened that our Singapore shipments started massively increase at exactly the same time we had implement export restrictions into China”.

          The people behind Nvidia might be cruel, corrupt and regressive, but they are not stupid.

          And I have no reason to believe Ubiquiti is any better from a moral perspective.

          EDIT: More details from a similar question to yours (but much more polite): https://piefed.social/comment/9904032