Soon, every fuckin’ thing you buy that plugs in will have an app, and demand to connect to the internet, and do it’s damnedest to make that happen, whether you let it or not. There’s probably a generic, dedicated chipset or board that does just this available for OEM purchase that they just wire into whatever they’re building. Fans, speakers, TVs and monitors, every appliance, lights, clocks, push vacuums, pet feeders, smoke alarms, anything you can think of. They’ll add some feature that no one wants to justify the camera, mic and internet connection. Or, they’ll just hide it, because whatever law might be used against them for doing that would not be strong enough to outweigh the profits, if it’s enforced at all.
If you have old appliances without these “features”, do your best to keep them working.
This won’t stop until we kick the capitalist out of our governments.
There’s also a social factor in play: yes, I could refrain from having “smart” apparata (and face the crushing social ostracism stemmed from this choice), but if one of my neighbors have a “smart” apparatus, depending on which one it is, it could technically be used to spy on me. I mean, the whole polemic involving Meta’s Creep-Glass has to do exactly with how those things can be used and are being used to spy on others, unbeknownst to said others who never ever purchased a Creep-Glass.
Soon, every fuckin’ thing you buy that plugs in will have an app, and demand to connect to the internet, and do it’s damnedest to make that happen, whether you let it or not. There’s probably a generic, dedicated chipset or board that does just this available for OEM purchase that they just wire into whatever they’re building. Fans, speakers, TVs and monitors, every appliance, lights, clocks, push vacuums, pet feeders, smoke alarms, anything you can think of. They’ll add some feature that no one wants to justify the camera, mic and internet connection. Or, they’ll just hide it, because whatever law might be used against them for doing that would not be strong enough to outweigh the profits, if it’s enforced at all.
If you have old appliances without these “features”, do your best to keep them working.
This won’t stop until we kick the capitalist out of our governments.
The last LEGO set i bought needs an app to run it, haha.
There’s also a social factor in play: yes, I could refrain from having “smart” apparata (and face the crushing social ostracism stemmed from this choice), but if one of my neighbors have a “smart” apparatus, depending on which one it is, it could technically be used to spy on me. I mean, the whole polemic involving Meta’s Creep-Glass has to do exactly with how those things can be used and are being used to spy on others, unbeknownst to said others who never ever purchased a Creep-Glass.
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