• queermunist she/her
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    11 months ago

    By this definition, all foreign students are guilty of espionage if they plan to take what they learned back to their home countries.

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      11 months ago

      This assumes the knowledge is owned by the country or anyone.

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        11 months ago

        I’m imagining a cyberpunk future where students have to pay a life-long lease for learning privately owned intellectual property, and if they don’t pay the repo men come to take their brains.

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          11 months ago

          Nightmare and exactly what the above comment is asking for.