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Re:Xiaomi Camera censoring German postal voting documents by solarkraft on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:54PM (#28397233)
It sounds like you’re a strong anti-conspiracy theorist, but not every conspiracy theory is wrong just because most are wacky (that there was a cartel to limit the life span of light bulbs is a proven true conspiracy theory).

There’s plenty of evidence for „conspiracies“ similar to what’s suggested here - Eurion dots are absolutely real. That doesn’t mean that I believe they’re being employed here, but it seems like a good candidate for further inspection, especially because it‘s a hypothesis that is fairly easy to test.

Re:Xiaomi Camera censoring German postal voting documents by bellyfullofbac on Thursday September 02, 2021 @07:00PM (#28398425)
It depends on your definition of "conspiracy theory", I thought that term used to mean explanations deemed to be nutty, but I guess you mean it literally.

Please, my mind is open, but as others have explained it's probably some image format being misinterpreted. To immediately put as prime suspect a theoretical secret government mandated software when a harmless photo of not-a-secret-document is corrupted is... nutjob-level insane.

If my car breaks down should I think "Oh shit the CIA/KGB/etc must've beamed a signal down from their satellite to jam my car's ECU", or should I wonder what part wore out? Original poster assumed the first with his "censored", while I'd like to explain there are a lot of possible harmless explanations. If someone's done a proper investigation and found censorship software, well I'll be damned, but before that, I'm not going to think "the men in black are out to get us!". People who think like that used to be found yelling on street corners, now they're all over the fucking Internet.

Read this to see why your brain maybe finds it more exciting to think it's a conspiracy: https://www.thestreet.com/phildavis/news/a-game-designers-an...

Re:Xiaomi Camera censoring German postal voting documents by zalequin on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:17PM (#28396152)
You can’t handle the truth and so you repress any idea of it.
Re:Xiaomi Camera censoring German postal voting documents by bellyfullofbac on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:41PM (#28396438)
And people absolutely certain of knowing the truth despite the lack of evidence are... what are they?