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I'm guessing most people in NK aren't carrying $1000 phones. They are carrying "...government-approved, Android-based smartphones...". Your statement about comp
by bdcravens 5y ago
I'm guessing most people in NK aren't carrying $1000 phones. They are carrying "...government-approved, Android-based smartphones...". Your statement about companies controlling the devices is certainly worth arguing for, but it's a different, far more draconian situation in North Korea.
- asdff 5y agoIt's the same situation, just taken to the extreme conclusion. We see varying shades of control of electronics from different governments and corporations, but at the end of the day putting a stop to any of these varying amounts of control requires the same solution: being allowed to use a computer for general purpose computing.
- kube-system 5y agoIn the case of North Korea, the state of computing norms in the rest of the world have no bearing on the situation there. Even Linux spies on users in North Korea. If every smartphone on the planet had full root access, NK would simply not allow smartphones.