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I’m surprised to see no comments on this yet: [The White House app] ships with 3 embedded trackers including Huawei Mobile Services Core (yes, the Chinese comp
by jrmg 7mo ago
I’m surprised to see no comments on this yet:
[The White House app] ships with 3 embedded trackers including Huawei Mobile Services Core (yes, the Chinese company the US government sanctioned, shipping tracking infrastructure inside the sitting president's official app)
The executive branch has decided this company is so dangerous I can’t buy a monitor made by them - but it’s embedding its SDK in its official app?!
I realize the decision makers probably don’t even know it’s there - it was just added by whatever contractor built the app, but that’s arguably even worse.
And I have absolutely no doubt that if it was discovered in a political opponent’s app, and the administration wanted to harm them, there would be no compunction about using that fact against them.
- e40 7mo agoIncompetence is the forte of this administration.
- N_Lens 7mo agoFollowed closely by malice
- Terr_ 7mo agoRecycling an old post: > We had the first 4+ years to learn that "malice or incompetence" is not the right question. There's been more than enough pathological input to show it becomes a denial-of-service attack on observers. > The correct answer is both, until and unless the perpetrators wish to come forward and defend themselves as just malicious or just incompetent. One might also view it as a kind politically-flavored nerd-sniping. [0] Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. [0] https://xkcd.com/356/ https://xkcd.com/356/
- bregma 7mo agoMalicious incompetence. The inbred kissing cousin of malicious compliance.
- gpderetta 7mo agoIMHO incompetent malice is as much likely.
- dandanua 7mo agoThe current administration has created a narrative that everything they do is good, while anything their opponents do is bad. Facts or meaning do not matter any more. I honestly don't understand how the USA has become this. This won't end well.
- LoganDark 7mo agoThe USA became this through Trump being elected.
- yetihehe 7mo agoI think Trump being elected is a result of anti-thought, feudalism-seeking part of society coming to power, not a cause. Enough people were fed up with thinking elites stealing from them, so they elected thought-averse elites to steal from them because they naively thought that the stealing is because of intelligence.
- abustamam 7mo agoWhat? Trump is just a symptom. The US didn't suddenly become what it is now because of a vote. Like it or not (and I certainly don't), the people voted for this, twice. Whether they voted for it because they actually wanted it vs they voted for it because politicians convinced them they wanted it, it is what we wanted.
- LoganDark 7mo agoI don't deny that Republicans existed before Trump, but Trump being elected certainly fast-tracked this skyrocketing fascist disaster.
- abustamam 7mo agoSure, absolutely. But again, the people voted for fascism. At his pre-election rallies he'd say shit like "I'm gonna be a dictator for a day!" and get cheers. An America that didn't like fascism would have never even let this man win the primary.
- xzjis 7mo ago[dead]
- kdheiwns 7mo ago> I realize the decision makers probably don’t even know it’s there Assuming incompetence gives the administration a cover to get away with anything. I'm not quite sure they're as stupid as they all act. Someone is surely using the facade of incompetence to rot things from the inside out.
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- justonceokay 7mo agoI read a comment on Reddit that changed my perspective on 90% of recent political commentary: “Y'all are mad about the dog whistle but you forgot about the dog”
- MisterTea 7mo agoDogs bite so I'll assume most people want to forget.
- inopinatus 7mo agoThe term for this is weaponised incompetence.
- TiredOfLife 7mo ago> The executive branch has decided this company is so dangerous I can’t buy a monitor made by them Huawei was sanctioned because they did business with a sanctioned country
- jrmg 7mo agoThat’s true - this was the reason for the original action in 2019 - but is not the whole story. The current rationale depends mostly on national security concerns: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47012 https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47012 …but it also doesn’t really matter here. Either they were sanctioned for a good reason and the Executive Branch is doing business with them anyway, or they were sanctioned for a bad reason and I’m not allowed to do business with them even though the Executive Branch does. It’s the hypocrisy I’m pointing out.