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To be fair, everything is Chinese made. I would be even the Apple TV and NVIDIA Shield are made in China and if a state actor is determined to get a malicious p
by bigmattystyles 2mo ago
To be fair, everything is Chinese made. I would be even the Apple TV and NVIDIA Shield are made in China and if a state actor is determined to get a malicious payload in....
- miladyincontrol 2mo agoTo play devil's advocate, when someone says "Chinese made" they're usually well aware of your point, and are more using it as a common way to describe product mills spitting out countless devices with dubious quality or configuration. Of course theres good products made in China, and plenty of entirely Chinese brands killing it doing their thing.
- 8note 2mo agoits pretty straight racism though. its US software companies that are the worst of the worst in terms of adware and malware being shipped under monopoly control
- Eisenstein 2mo agoIts based on the most common heuristic people have developed in regards to the phenomenon. What do you think about 'alphabet soup company' instead, referring to the tendency for names to be a mix of random letters? Otherwise, you can try and create a better term for 'unaccountable third parties using US platforms to dodge liability for their product made out of the cheapest components and software possible' and see if that catches on. Yes it is also the US companies that are a problem but these are two separate problems and need different terms.
- SecretDreams 2mo agoThere's enough evil malware provider blame to go around.
- wvh 2mo agoIt's not racism at all to be weary of (any) political system, its overreach and the incentives of the people living in it, be it China or America or Russia. The word racism is vastly overused these days.
- parineum 2mo ago> its pretty straight racism though. It's not. Firstly, because countries aren't races. Second, because it's just a leftover from a time where that was a good heuristic.
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- fc417fc802 2mo agoThis isn't about state actors though. There's a world of difference between a name brand (possibly even a Chinese one) versus what I would term "chineseum". It's nothing to do with China per se and everything to do with purchasing from the extreme low end of the market. It just so happens that the vast majority of that segment is manufactured in China at present.
- worik 2mo ago> To be fair, everything is Chinese made Yes. Chinese manufacturing is quite a phenomenon, useful and everywhere But to be completely fair, a $40 video projector has a warning label. The price
- a96 2mo agoYou can put a bigger price tag over it. It won't be any better.
- speerer 2mo agoI think normally when people say Chinese made in this way, what they're really communicating is that there's no (meaningful) brand. All they know about it is that it is from China.
- r_lee 2mo agoMade in China and random Chinese brands are two very different things
- ChrisRR 2mo agoOften they're exactly the same things
- ponector 2mo agoMy Samsung phone is made in Vietnam.