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I used to work at a company (they also dealt with stuff that required NATO clearance) that had extremely restricted internet access in order to protect the internal network. To access the internet each time we logged into a virtual machine controlled by IT and each file downloaded was cleared by IT separately. This obviously slowed us down a lot and since I was an external (student) consultant there we shifted to using laptops + hotspot to actually do our work.

"China and India, where many consumer products are manufactured, are the worst offenders."

So instead of merely blaming and regulating, it is ultimately upon all of us to change consumption behavior.