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The allegation is that the censorship code is there. It's disabled on phones in western markets, but can be enabled remotely by the manufacturer.
by tyingq 5y ago
The allegation is that the censorship code is there. It's disabled on phones in western markets, but can be enabled remotely by the manufacturer.
- oblak 5y agoSo, it's better than US made spyware which cannot be removed from "our" PC CPUs? Best we can do is "disable" these features in the BIOS/UEFI and sleep well, even though we nothing's really stopped. Sorry for the whataboutism but I am lot less concerned about Chinese spyware because I know for a fact that my government serves the EU and the US. All this anti China propaganda is really tiresome. China this, China that. Someone seems really scared. Fuck this someone
- trasz 5y agoAs you can see, one gets downvoted quickly when pointing out double standards, or posting anything else that could interfere with anti-Chinese propaganda efforts.
- tyingq 5y agoThe reply was to my fairly "just the facts" statement, where I didn't characterize what was happening, just explained it.
- severino 5y ago> It's disabled on phones in western markets, but can be enabled remotely by the manufacturer Well, I think everything can be enabled remotely by your manufacturer, no matter which... it is what we call "software upgrades". But for me, a western, it's actually good to have a phone controlled by the Chinese. I would be concerned if it were controlled by my government, though.
- onepointsixC 5y agoIt's also in Chinese, so if it is activated typing it in English doesn't do anything. But that's not to say that it can't be also updated to be other languages