The average American truly doesn’t know just how much their entire market is already artificially forced to keep out better options simply because they aren’t American or aligned with American gov interests.
The result is we get objectively shittier stuff than the rest of the world. Huawei being banned in the US is a perfect example of this. The gov claims they ban this shit to stop Chinese infiltration, but the reality is its to eliminate competition for American and American aligned billionaires.
It’s bit of both. I still wouldn’t trust Chinese tech. Huawei tech is involved in surveiling the African Union headquarters.. This not to minimise US’ own corruption and digital imperialism, although I think the EU is in the right step to use open source software to replace American tech.
That’s what I said basically. US is doing its own digital imperialism. The difference is that the US government outsourced the Orwellian surveillance to techbros.
That’s just a difference in government philosophy though. China owns most endeavours in its country, the USA outsources it to private enterprise and buys it back.
Amazon literally allows police and ICE access to your Ring camera and Alexa recordings at will. They don’t even have to make a request, Amazon built an app so they can have access to any of it immediately.
Huawei is a bad example of a good point. Huawei working on anything related to US infrastructure would be a disaster. Consumer goods maybe not so bad but that whole thing started because of B2B
It’s not just that they don’t know. They’re willfully ignorant. People have some kind of consumer brainrot. I was talking to someone last week about how it’d be better to keep their older perfectly functional tools because the newer ones have been getting enshittified for decades. His only answer was like “well I can just replace them in if they break” which didn’t even address what I was talking about really.
I just learned headlight technology in new European cars is insane. Literally selectively blocks out light to incoming cars. So you can see the road at night and not blind people.
It’s not something that’s been allowed in the US until very recently. Auto on/off high beams have been a thing for decades, but the selective dimming/“tunneling” only just recently became legal within the past couple of years in the US.
The average American truly doesn’t know just how much their entire market is already artificially forced to keep out better options simply because they aren’t American or aligned with American gov interests.
The result is we get objectively shittier stuff than the rest of the world. Huawei being banned in the US is a perfect example of this. The gov claims they ban this shit to stop Chinese infiltration, but the reality is its to eliminate competition for American and American aligned billionaires.
A bit of column a, bit of column b. Ban Huawei, but Cisco is made in China too so the data risk is still there.
Then blame TP-Link, right?
It’s bit of both. I still wouldn’t trust Chinese tech. Huawei tech is involved in surveiling the African Union headquarters.. This not to minimise US’ own corruption and digital imperialism, although I think the EU is in the right step to use open source software to replace American tech.
I would trust China before Elon fucking Musk.
Just because US is going on temper tantrum it doesn’t mean people have to forget that China is doing its own Orwellian surveillance.
It’s pretty bad everywhere but people don’t realize the level of surveillance in China is on a whole other fucking level.
An acceptable price for living under a government that actually controls its capitalist billionaires rather than being controlled by them.
And it’s not like China’s surveillance is any more Orwellian than the West’s. They just do it more openly.
All tech is used as such. You think Apple and Microsoft and Android aren’t selling your data to the government? Hmmm…
That’s what I said basically. US is doing its own digital imperialism. The difference is that the US government outsourced the Orwellian surveillance to techbros.
That’s just a difference in government philosophy though. China owns most endeavours in its country, the USA outsources it to private enterprise and buys it back.
Amazon literally allows police and ICE access to your Ring camera and Alexa recordings at will. They don’t even have to make a request, Amazon built an app so they can have access to any of it immediately.
At least “All popular consumer tech …” then, because there are alternatives already.
Huawei is a bad example of a good point. Huawei working on anything related to US infrastructure would be a disaster. Consumer goods maybe not so bad but that whole thing started because of B2B
A disaster for whom?
It’s not just that they don’t know. They’re willfully ignorant. People have some kind of consumer brainrot. I was talking to someone last week about how it’d be better to keep their older perfectly functional tools because the newer ones have been getting enshittified for decades. His only answer was like “well I can just replace them in if they break” which didn’t even address what I was talking about really.
“But it got electrolytes. That’s what plants crave”
The same media is sent to all people in the west. The US is just some years ahead.
I just learned headlight technology in new European cars is insane. Literally selectively blocks out light to incoming cars. So you can see the road at night and not blind people.
It’s not an European exclusive, I once rented a Mazda CX30 that did that
It’s not something that’s been allowed in the US until very recently. Auto on/off high beams have been a thing for decades, but the selective dimming/“tunneling” only just recently became legal within the past couple of years in the US.
My 2015MY has that as an option. It’s slick. I didn’t know it was available when I bought used but it’s a (€2500) DIY retrofit.
Huawei’s sin was making too good cellphone. I owned one right before US decided to ban Google Android from it. It was awesome phone.
This Huawei???
They keep out other options so that they can support American businesses that don’t exploit cheap/slave labor.
Dude. The majority of “made in america” is prison labour
LOL gonna need a source for that one buddy
If only there were some magical device, perhaps hand sized, you could use to investigate claims you found outrageous
I have all types of devices I can use to type into a search engine. They don’t make information instantly appear in front of me.
This does not say “the majority of ‘made in America’ prison labor” or anything similar.