Dumb.
“We are too corrupt to draft meaningful privacy legislation, but watch as we pretend CCP is the real problem.”
Performative BS
Same thing with TikTok
They want privacy from us but not privacy for us.
IOW there are plenty in the government who don’t want citizens to have access to information about what they’re doing in government, but they’re quite happy to try to make more legislation giving them rights or backdoor access to citizens’ information.
They’re the Boogeyman of the decade.
Funny thing is, those Chinese drones are being heavily used by Ukraine, because they’re more reliable than US-made drones. In 2023, Ukraine bought about 60% of the global supply of DJI’s Mavic quadcopters.
commercial drones have to be reflashed for combat use anyway. it only makes sense for them to standardize on something
I love how the US government allowed everything corporations sell to be completely made in China. It fucked the economy hard. It fucked the working class even harder. Made shit that is made here extremely expensive, and now they’re banning shit left and right.
The corporatocracy achieved their goal of gutting the developed worlds working class and nullifying both labor and environment regulations for their most pollutant and exploitative industries.
Now that like 10 corporations have monopolized most of the wests products and supply chains, they can extract even more value by removing Chinese owned products from the supply pool. Of course, most of their products will continue coming from the same Chinese factories. This is only the beginning.
Chinese drone company, which is also supplying most of Ukraine’s drones, is not okay
But American company using Chinese parts to make their drones and sell with “made in USA” markup is fine
MIC just mad they can’t sell their crappy 50k per unit drone because a $100 one from AliExpress is doing a better job of dropping grenades and not overheating.
Isn’t every Chinese company partly state-owned?
No, that is a common misconception. Most (~85%) companies in China are completely private and just pay taxes. Most of the super large companies (like fortune 500) are partially or completely state owned though. They have embraced aspects of capitalism the last decade, but with checks to ensure that huge corporations don’t control society like in the US.
Perhaps “state managed” would be a better descriptor for Chinese private companies, since some now have personnel belonging to the CCP serving in management or board positions.
Being a successful politician in China may allow you to control large companies. Being a successful businessman in US may allow you to control political parties. I guess the endgame is the same for powerful people in both countries.
Being a closed authoritarian regime, where every company is under party control, they have to do what the party says. Which can easily be something secretly nefarious
You mean they have to follow laws? Damn communist.
Question is: do I buy one now and risk them bricking it out of spite… I guess as long as I don’t update the firmware? I don’t actually know how their geofence works.
This is lame. They already crammed remoteID™ down our throats :-( Although this will do way more to curtail drone activity it’s demonstrably not going to stop anyone from doing anything really bad.
Build your own drone. Don’t bother paying the DJI markup when you can get a full frame mirrorless on a bunch of wood with brushless motors attached.
Okay but the DJI drones have just a few benefits over something like that lol
Yeah, right? Gooooood luck telling, idk, my uncle to do that. He’s approaching seventy but uses drones as a hobbyist photographer and to do the occasional surveying for work. He’s not going to be able to “lol just build your own”. And afaik there’s nothing remotely competitive by us manufacturers
Oh I’ve built a few over the last 10 years. There’s a lot to be said for what DJI has accomplished over that time. I doubt it would cost me less that 10K to make something that has all the features they offer in a $2K package. And it would take months for a prototype.
They should ban them because their software is so awful instead
Who makes better?
So am I gonna get a refund for my unusable product?
West big corps pushing to ban Chinese brands
Same west big corps selling you shit made in the same factories
Round business… happy customers…
I thought DJI has an R&D office in California? Is that just for show and the actual R&D is done in Shenzhen?
Heh. Theyve been on the market here too long for that to do anything but make the fcc feel better
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