• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    As much as I hate Elon, this is a terrible idea. Cheap Chinese trash mobiles built by Uyghur slave labor are not the answer.

    How about we build cars in Canada instead?

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      9 months ago

      Except they aren’t trash, they’re better than Teslas that’s for sure.

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          9 months ago

          There has been talks about forcing Chinese cars to come over disconnected. Every new car is a surveillance machine. The western brands will not be asked to disconnect anything and it will probably be illegal to do so yourself, so Chinese cars might be an actual win in that regard.

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          9 months ago

          I’de rather China have my data than an company over here. What are they gunna do with it that would affect me?

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              9 months ago

              What mess? American Imperialism / Capitalism imploding on itself?

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                9 months ago

                A foreign power having far, far too much control over our economic possessions. Information is a resource; what they do with it is inconsequential, we have to stop giving it away to people simply because they’re our ‘trade partners’ right now.

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                    9 months ago

                    Yes. You’re phrasing that like it’s some kind of gotcha, but this whole conversation started with me pointing out that we’d just be repeating our errors with the us but versus a different imperial polity.