Oh cool.

Sure, I’m making some assumptions based on patterns I’ve seen.

Yeah, there have been various leaks over the years that trickle out. Supposedly they’ve banned companies from operating in the US for refusal to comply with backdoor demands (Hawei, Kaspersky), some reports of backdoors built right into both Intel & AMD processors, some vague stuff that’s come out about backdoors in Windows, etc. Even when the companies refuse to comply, there’s been reports of US intelligence going into factories or intercepting deliveries to install spy chips into hardware. I recall there was a local ISP provider somewhere in the mid-west that got shut down for refusing to install spy devices in their facilities.

Really a lot of this was confirmed as far back as Snowden. And plenty of whistleblowers and leaks since.

Well when these things get posted, you’ll see an unnatural flood of downvotes & angry comments come in. Definitely seems like some kind of coordinated brigading. Or could just be one asshole with a bot farm.

I really don’t get it. There’s definitely a group of ideologues that are pushing anti-meat on here, and flood any post on the topic. Something like that either needs funding or volunteers coordinating. I’m guessing either extremist anti-meat groups, or big ag astroturfers trying to make them look bad.

That’s a cop out. It’s not stupidity. It’s hate.

It’s funny, because it’s their government’s version of knockoff spyware, and decades out of date. Western governments get a live feed out of their backdoors.

Yes. All of our successes are the result of communal effort. It’s not communism because the means of production are controlled by a small group of people, who also absorb all of the excess wealth created from the communal efforts.

Reply back please. Your self-owns are cracking me up.

Yep. And I’m a big supporter. We should use the cleanest methods available as appropriate for each application.

Fuck the cost. The planet is going to be unfit for human habitation in a generation or two, while ecosystems and ocean current collapse kills everything else.

All that matters is if it’s cleaner. Stop ruling out options because they’re not market friendly.

’Communism is when communal efforts produce results.’

Accidentally correct, you dolt.

China is sentencing billionaires to death. You’re just Sinophobic.

Close. Put the capitalist train on its side, spilling hazardous waste into a community water source.

The writer clearly understands that something isn’t adding up with Microsoft’s claims about TPM, but nowhere do they address the accusations that Microsoft plans to use it as DRM (and potentially spying).

Similarly, only supporting certain CPU’s is suspect as hell. Between all this and Recall, it really feels like the driving design focus behind Windows 11 was to build the best spying machine they could.

No, Europe is aggressively pushing for additional backdoors and tracking. The tracking is often disguised as a way to protect children with age verification.

Seizing a worker’s passport should be an automatic life sentence. And it’s not just a problem with these big companies. Tons of wealthy individuals in the US do this with their immigrant workers.

You don’t understand. The tracking and spying is the entire point of the maneuver. The ‘children are accessing porn’ thing is just a Trojan horse to justify the spying.

As you pointed out, it’s already illegal for them to access it, and parents are legally required to prevent their children from accessing it. But you don’t lock down the entire population, or institute pre-crime surveillance policies, just because some parents are not going to follow the law. You then charge the guilty parents after the offense.

Probably because these companies have some US competitors that want to see them taken out. This is a common tactic.

The DoD is always lying. If you still believe them at this point, you just want to be fooled. Probably appeals to your Sinophobia in this instance.

Damn. They’re really ripping the copper wiring out of the walls.

The DoD is regularly trolling, and designating rival political ideologues as terrorists to justify unwarranted legal maneuvers.