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What’s your point?
There’s a handful of valid notions in there, but they apply to the vast majority of apps people download.
It’s a choice. You could get the same technology from an American company for… 50-80K if you’re lucky and will to roll up your sleeves and learn some sophisticated GIS software (not included).
Or you could get the DJI for… let’s call it 6K including a nice laptop and let the evil orientials know the layout of your hazlenut orchard. Oh nooooos! Spooky scary!
The Uyghur thing is a problem for me. And I would need to understand that better before I buy something. If it’s a case of the Chinese government asking DJI to provide surveillance tech, I’m not sure that’s a request they can deny. If it’s DJI using slave/forced labor, fuckem.
They are mapping network infrastructure and gobbling up whatever data they can find, and sending it back to China, where for sure they are feeding into an AI that is going to try and figure out the exact networks that need to be taken out to inflict maximum damage to the US.
I'm sure Congress and the FCC are looking at other apps and devs as well and this is probably just the beginning of more and more Chinese tech being frozen out of western economies, I know the US is also approaching this from a diplomatic standpoint, looking at requirements to keep data gathered by the companies out of China. It's above my pay grade, especially the technical aspects. As I understand there already was a deal with tick tock for them not to ship the data to China, but they kept doing it anyway. This Act of Congress may be a cudgel for those diplomatic negotiations, as if to say if "keep fucking around and we will ban your shit one by one until there isn't any left."
"One as an example, two to show we can keep doing it."
So your contention is that because Congress our most learned body of intellectuals… fuck it, I’m not in the mood tonight.