China Is Planning to Restrict and Scrutinise the Use of Wireless Filesharing

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This is by far one of the most core democratizing innovations that's been waayyy to underloved.

The big giants have proprietary systems. These amazing computers with so many communication systems can't actually talk to each other. It's a huge shame. We really should mobilize some kind of opportunistic exchange system on Linux.

For a brief moment Google had Eddystone, which let folks share urls with each other. That was at least something. Not much.

Really wish the rest of the world cared about this a little more. We take it for granted.

This whole "Walled Gardens" approach reflects a mindset which is all about controlling the users, telling them what's good for their devices, when it's the right time to update, etc. instead of letting them have the control. And this mindset is prevalent in all products of the tech companies across the world, be it corporate America or communist China.

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