Xiaomi cellphones can censor searches: NCC
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This again? This is just a redo of the Lithuanian story from a few months ago. The blacklist is to prevent advertisements built into the OS from containing certain blacklisted words. It doesn't censor searches.
That’s not a criticism of the individuals there, just a recognition of the conditions.
Admittedly that’s not any easy thing to define all the time.
Which nations are truly free then?
If you can tell the President on Christmas Eve "Let's Go Brandon" which means something vulgar and you don't go to jail then you live in a free country
If you are incarcerated in a re-education camp because of your religion then you live in an unfree country
Everyone, the reporter included, knew fully well what the crowds were chanting. That phrase sums in 3 words how corrupt the media is to whitewash and censor any criticism of the establishment president and the mainstream narrative.
The US is orders of magnitude different to and better than China, but still has room for improvement.
US citizen: I live in a free country! Nobody will prosecute me if I go next to White House and shout out loud "<name of US president>! You are an old stupid son of a bitch!"
USSR citizen: I also live in a free country! Nobody will prosecute me if I go to Red Square and shout out loud "<name of US president>! You are an old stupid son of a bitch!"
Let's go Brandon is not widely known, I am inclined to think, to the typical audience of President's Christmas Eve address. It does not warrant any action because of this.
Edit: Ah, silly me. That was just a thinly veiled insult against China, the great big devil.
I grew up under military dictatorship in Latin America. Back then you could get in serious trouble if you said or did the wrong thing. There is a lot more “freedom” now but the people are still oppressed by their own social condition. Plus ça change…
War is productivity. Wage slavery is freedom. Nationalism is strength.
Yes I know there's a series of specific Samsung models that are approved for US govt use and are likely made in a facility in south Korea.
I think we have two categories of things
A) phones made in China with software/OS load for CCP compliant censorship and data collection
B) phones made in China with software and OS load for the global market (example would be oxygenOS on an English language OnePlus phone. If it turns out there's hidden data collection or censorship frameworks in oxygenOS I would be very disappointed.)
Apple: I trust their US QA to detect planted spyware.
Apparently /e/OS, the free Android distribution by Mandrake founder Gaël Duval, is available pre-installed, so there should be solid LineageOS support.
Where something is made doesn't tell us where the components are sourced however. It is MediaTek based, so make of that what you will.
https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-devices-achieve-approval...
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/gov...
If they're the kind that's sold artificially cheap under the assumption that they can make up the difference by showing you ads for the whole lifetime of the device, running a different OS has the added benefit of eating into their profit margins.
Vendors that are LineageOS-friendly include Google, OnePlus, Xiaomi, and Asus.[3] If you already have a Xiaomi phone, replacing the stock operating system with LineageOS could improve your privacy.
[1] https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/get-started/...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/24/22639869/samsung-galaxy-z...
I have nothing against wanting to protect and industry, but it should not be done with misconceptions.
How does "protectionism" have anything to do with this? It's weird to inject that economic framing into a question about what kind of policies you want to be subject to, and who you want to be setting those policies.
In that case pre-installed and inactive is not much worse...
I am not sure what to make off this. Since I myself repeated this same behavior all the time. And I see no one not even Noam Chomsky showing something that is fundamentally different?
I can manufacture much better evidences myself given me enough support from NED RFA Falungong.
Iraq WMD at least have "evidences" from CIA and backed by colin powell. Now a genocide is not backed by evidences from any 3-letter agency, or any US officials.
Use your feet to think about what's going on. You dont even need to engage your brain to smell the ridiculousness behind all these lies.
I am even frustrated by the laziness of the manufacturer. Come on, lies produced before at least passed scrutiny from morons. Now even an animal cannot stand its poor quality.
It should be the accuser to give extraordinary evidences for extraordinary claim. Not the other way around.
One only has to look at how China treats protestors to realize they aren't exactly the most concerned governments when it comes to human rights.
And although reputation and integrity is unredeemable, you would still trust western mainstream media, after outrageous poor news reporting after Iraq, Syria, Assange, etc.
You are just fed with propaganda for your whole life without knowing the inhuman suffering you have been through.
I have not tried to convince you that no one was killed in 1989 06 04, for example 15 PLA soldiers have been killed in the event, 6 of them were directly killed by the protesters. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-some-of-the-protesters.... Have you seen any law enforcement personels get killed in other western democracy? All my memory points to no such reports. Why? Because democracy is law-based, there are laws granting self-defense rights under provocation. But you know why PLA did not do that? Because PLA is the army from the people, for the people, thus its name People's Liberation Army.
Your mind is simply fully of biases and stereotype that truth just does not make sense. Just like a DoS cannot run ELF executable.
It does, you just need more karma.
Xiaomi ships different builds for regions. Some of them might be genuinely ok devices. The problem is you never know what you've got without an audit and some trust. Better just avoid them altogether.
A decade ago people on for example Slashdot used to talk about how they wanted a phone that was ‘just a phone’. That sounds silly these days because people hardly ever use the phone any more, over using various text apps. A phone that just phones would be a useless device to 99.99% of people.
they've moved to the track and hunt stage.
A video showing the censoring at work would be great!
Second, the evolution of Xiaomi products is very bad: At the beginning, their smartphones were great because they used a MIUI version that was very 'pure': no crapware, no junk 'preinstalled apps', no call to home, interface that was customizable like you wanted.
In the first place, this is why people were buying the devices compared to Samsung phones with preinstalled and non removable apps like Facebook.
Now that Xiaomi became a leader on the market and has quite an important market share. They completely go the Samsung way with stuffing phones with a lot of junk and sometime deceitful one.
I would like us to focus on one topic at a time, avoid whataboutism and reduce the fog.
Also, nobody is talking about twitter.
Finally their intent is the same. To control what I say and do. It is only anti US because I don’t want the US to slide down the slippery slope it’s going down, and I’m allowed to be critical of it in hopes it doesn’t end up similar to China.
This makes no sense to me. Can you explain further? May be if lobbyists are trying to lobby for amending the constitution or passsing a censorship law?
I am generally with you about the private corporations censoring when its a monopoly. Google and Apple lobby for making sure they are not appearing as monopolies. The most extreme example would be a hypothetical scenario where your only ISP in the area decides to ban a website. That is effectively censorship. But, as far as I know, that is illegal in US (FCC). These aspects are very different from Chinese censorship which is absolute, very transparently enforced and openly admitted by CCP.