And this software is made by Microsoft, Google, Apple or Amazon. None of it is made in China.
The hardware this software runs on, is made in China - to American specifications. Except for the chips, the tiny integrated circuits that every laptop is composed of. The code for these (the software for each of them) is made in the USA - and a few other Northern European countries.
Why can't China, or any dictatorship, make these chips, and the software that powers them?
Because this is not the way that modern Software is built. A revolution in Software Development has been going on, for the last thirty years, or so. It is now built by many independent developers - each contributing his own component to the overall mix. And all these components, have to work together, and do work together!
When they are properly assembled, by the proper framework, or other high-level code.
Many independent developers, working together harmoniously - can only happen in a liberal democracy.
But democracies (of all kinds) have serious problems. Just because everyone agrees on something, does not make them right!
The Athenians sentenced Socrates to death - and even their gods (who interfered frequently, in human affairs) did not bother save him.
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