Huawei a private Chinese company that can't be manipulated is banned. TP-Link, a Chinese company that can't be manipulated is moving towards being banned. Starting to see a pattern here? (www.youtube.com)

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's two types of responses in this thread. People who assume 'manipulated' means 'pushed around by a foreign (the US) government'. And people who assume 'manipulated' means 'complying with locals laws (that of China)'. I don't know wether the latter is a knee jerk response in favor of corporate sovereignty, or if it is about US extraterritoriality. After all, whenever we order Twitter to comply with Brazilian laws, the US government cites its own constitution or whatever to censor us.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

It depends on your threat model, but it seems most people in the lemmyverse live in some nato-aligned (or at least not aligned with the PRC) country, so if you are concerned about surveillance from your domestic state it would be safer to use Chinese technology. Sure, the PRC government might also be spying on you but what are they gonna do with that data? You don't live there lol. Unless you're working for the FBI or something, but in that case I hope the PRC spies on you a lot.

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