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Now imagine a future where every device you buy is connected to the internet wirelessly, whether you like it or not.

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Now imagine a future

- where every device you use belongs to a private company

- connects wirelessly through a network owned by a private company

- to services owned by a private company

- that loans you even more stuff owned by a private company

- and entertains you with content owned by a private company

- and all the websites and news and games and podcasts and chats are hosted on servers owned by a private company

and the democratic power that helps you control this private company is funded by the success of such a private company.

I fear a world where we have neither individual nor collective control of our everyday lives.

Not relevant to this, which is about physically placing antennae at a location, to provide a local service.

Is that time already here? Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers, TVs etc.

Don't they require wifi? This effort (and Amazon Sidewalk) are trying to bypass that.

Not yet. All of those still require wifi or bluetooth. They ask the user to do the setup.

Yes. Many devices will ask for a network or create a mesh network over wifi/bluetooth/zigby if one isn't presented to them.

No.

Automobiles is the one you're looking for.

Then we start jailbreaking them to use as free modems and cost people who make that huge amounts of money, then they will stop.

You assume a future where internet is ubiquitous and fee and not a future where every device you own comes with the burden of a perpetual subscription in order to function.

That's what pliers are for.

Besides the fact that your average user will not be able to open these devices. Removing connectivity will probably irreversibly brick them.

So what? You can always isolate these things by removing the antenna or if all else fails putting them in a faraday cage

Yeah I can totally imagine the average consumer opening the back of their TV to find an antenna or setting up a faraday cage in their living room /s

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