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Originally Posted by Davil
In Australia BYD were found to have a hidden SIM that could listen to you with no indication that it was doing so.
There’s a good documentary about them on YouTube. Massive losses, subsidised heavily by their government that allows overseas market stuffing and very low prices. Loads of them down sold down here. Interesting business practice but it certainly works. Appliance buyers don’t care. They get something new and shiny for cheap.
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It “could” eh? Like how my TV, phone, laptop, or any million smart home things could listen to me if they really really wanted?
The boogeyman might care about the government, but definitely not you. I say that as someone who helped write some of the social media software back then that supposedly tracks everyone.
“Appliance buyer” is an interesting term too. I say that only because I was a hardcore appliance hater ever since I was a teenager. Charismatic, emotional cars only. No Manuel no care. All of that. Until I rented a Tesla, and then bought a Tesla. The Tesla now has stayed in the garage for significantly longer than 90% of the 26 cars I’ve bought in my life, precisely because “it’s just an appliance” and it’s easy as shit to own and operate. I do sometimes wonder what the real propaganda is?
I really don’t need the government to tell me what I can and cannot buy; I can more than make those decisions on my own especially in a supposedly free market. I suspect the government knows that too.
Just say “Can’t let the Chinese have any, regardless of logic, truth and consequences.” And that’ll be enough. It’d be more intellectually honest and more respectable of a position to hold.