New Bill Would Require Warning Labels on Apps Made by China, Russia, Iran

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[–]UnrulyAnteater 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I don't know, doesn't seem right that "they" get to determine who "the enemy" is as far as warning labels go.

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

in theory. but in practie, there is zero doubt that communist, totalitarian, tyrannical countries are the enemies of america and the west in general.

it's bad enough they let chinese manufacturing be this ubiquitous.

[–]UnrulyAnteater 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

At the State level, I agree. As much as they would probably think the same about us. However, from a user level, this really would only hurt individual developers. It'd also be a Scarlet letter move regarding those same developers; a slippery-slope argument I guess for more software lockdown leading a less open society.

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

apps that are spying on the end user so the stolen data can be used by machine learning to implement a tyrannical social credit system is what yields a less open society.

[–]UnrulyAnteater 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To that end, I totally agree. However, labelling an app as from a certain country does nothing towards this if the apps made in your own country do the exact same thing.

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

agreed