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Wait is that a thing? Was a supposed to sign up for notifications somewhere? No one told me.

Its a shame that no true no true scottsman fallacy has ever been tried.

is that a baritone?

You seem naive believing that corporations in other countries operate with restraint.

I agree with you that both modern tech and china are bad. However, these things are not related. You seem blinded by anti chinese prejudice, which is leading you to conflate these two issues.

If china imploded and stopped existing, modern tech would still have all the issues we discussed.

If Canada were able to implement a perfect data security law that was fully effective in banning all of these technological bad practices we discussed, it would not change china’s position in the market.

That has been my point this whole time. These issues are unrelated. If you disagree, please address my point directly.

Korea is a major world player with aspirations to dominate the world economy. That’s kind of the premise behind capitalism. Samsung isn’t content being a small company, they are a megacorporation involved in pretty much every part of Korean society, from heavy machinery, to insurance, to medicine, electronics, capital investments, construction and more. Your assertion that only china wants to dominate international markets is patently untrue. Capitalism is defined by endless greed. No corporation would turn down domination if it has the means.

Corporations are not democratic. Korean citizens do not get to vote for the samsung president. Corporations are the ones doing these things, not democratic institutions.

Security and privacy are issues that matter. Violating privacy and making devices less secure isn’t only a problem when china does it.

Yes? And what is uniquely chinese about this issue? Samsung, the korean company pushed ads in an update to their smart fridges. That channel could just as easily be used to brick the fridges, by the manufacturer or another malicious actor.

Nothing about any of this is china specific. None of these issues can be solved by sanctioning one country. There need to be laws to prevent any company from selling products with these problems. That is the only possible solution.

Mozilla did a study on cars and data collection. They found it was an industry wide problem. Every manufacturer tested collected tons of personal data and didn’t keep it secure or private. Their writeup does not mention EVs, and it implicated brands like subaru which does not sell an EV in Canada or the US at time of writing.

This is not an EV problem.

Most cars have an internet connection. Many have a cellular modem built in. Modern infotainment systems use the internet and upload the data that way. Many cars also store data internally that is only accessible to authorized service centers through a proprietary tool, which will upload the data when serviced by a dealer. Data is valuable. Companies don’t just refuse to exploit that value on principle.

I don’t trust the laws as they currently exist, which is why I am advocating they be changed to stop this data collection.

All cars have this problem. EVs are not the issue. But not just cars, any device with a computer and an internet connection does this exact same thing. You can’t play whack a mole banning countries in specific industries and do anything. The only solution is broad data protection laws.

The OTA updates thing is mostly the result of tesla’s ineptitude and willingness to ship a defective product in the hopes they can fix it with a patch. They are not the only cars with internet connections.

Chinese social credit scores are a myth. The sesame credit thing was a study run by one company temporarily and then stopped. It was never implemented widely and does not exist now.

Every country seems bad if you cherry pick the single worst thing you can find and attribute it to the entire country. Which is where the idea of chinese social credit came from. Its a myth.

American social credit scores encourage engagement with capitalism. They lower your score for not having debt or paying it off. The goal is to shape behavior. If you want to own a home or rent an apartment you have to buy things you don’t need.

then why bring up data at all? Or EVs? Proper data protection laws will protect Canadians regardless of the state of the market.

China dominating the world’s market can be a bad thing on its own merits. There’s no need to conflate these issues.

They put cameras in gas cars too. Modern cars collect and transmit too much personal data regardless of propulsion. Nor is this a chinese problem. Every car company does this. You blame china but provide a link of americans doing the bad thing. The Germans do it too, so do the French and the Japanese. Anything with a computer in it is now a surveillance device. That’s a bad thing. That’s something that should be stopped. Its odd you only point to one kind of car and one country.

Canada needs laws to stop this behavior of data collection. No product from any country should collect personal data not directly necessary for its function. Laws can be written to solve problems. Banning one country from one type of product does nothing.

the dystopian social credit score used in the united states

I support mandatory parking minimums, for bicycles. Many american cities are adding bike lanes to streets. You could bike there, but outside of the central core of the city there is no guarantee there will be any place to lock up the bike on arrival.

Parking minimums for bikes, parking maximums for cars.

i want to be a goth girl

Copyrights don’t last perpetually, and the bible is old enough to be public domain. Newer translations and editions can be under copyright but the underlying work is public domain.

Copyright purportedly exists to promote the sciences and useful arts. Historical scholarship, and the research into old manuscripts in making a new edition of any old work does have value, and does entitle you to a copyright. However, scholarly editions generally have a shorter term than original works.

The bible is public domain, but there are copyrighted editions. The same can be said for most historical works of note. There are copyrighted editions of Beethoven’s symphonies, Shakespeare’s plays, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s books, despite the original works being public domain.

I don’t think copyrights are evidence for or against the existence of any god, or the validity of any religion. The fact that there are copyrighted editions means there is interest in studying the texts, which is true for every extant religion.

The cartoon is over 85% text. Not good. The value in cartoons is the ability to convey ideas visually. This is not a great cartoon.