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Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban by cyanydeez on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:31PM (#45869863)
And in reverse, you think Palentir has a transparent business model to trust with your data? I don't get why people find china more suspect than most of these billionaire led monopolies buying politicians and laws and spout paranoid gibberish about Christianity and anti Christ etc.

Both might be fundamentally evil or being, but they aren't different in danger based solely on how white they are.

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Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban by jojobas on Sunday November 09, 2025 @06:31PM (#45870358)
What about whataboutism?

And yes an American company in cahoots with the government having the ability to snoop on traffic and turn entire networks off, while bad, is nowhere near as bad as a Chinese one having the exact same capability.

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Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban by freeopinion on Sunday November 09, 2025 @07:39PM (#45870835)
The US company and the US government are 1000x more likely to leverage their position in an antagonistic way against US customers.
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Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban by heavyset_go on Sunday November 09, 2025 @10:35PM (#45872110)
Both can be bad at the same time
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Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban by cyanydeez on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @02:25PM (#45891661)
Right, but one is "white" and the other is "dark"
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