Reviewers are paid actors tho, aren’t they? Since Google controls the youtube algorithms, they get to push which review ranks in search, featured in homepage, and recommended alongside other reviews. And the reviewers make money from ads which are run by Google themselves.

While some reviewers will likely claime they bought the phone, Google has the resources to reward positive reviews.

tldr: Mainstream reviewers are the last thing to base an opinion on a product.

Right on time for the US government to lead their populace on an boogeyman hunt season by blaming anything inconvenient on an enemy state. without any evidence whatsoever… I might add.

• unrest? Russian misinformation
• online? Chinese bots
• stop funding genocide? hamas opeatives
• any criticism? people that want Trump elected

And the funny thing is everyone there eats it up like good little tools they are. But argue, US companies are not under government fingers like China and Russia. No sir, and when it’s found that they’re doing the government’s dirty work time and again behind closed doors.

“They’re conveniently just following the law, what do you expect them to do?”

People don’t realize how much of reddit content is made by bot farms and advertising agencies, propaganda outlets with bots to spare. Which is what’s keeping the normies entertained, not the nerds, not the niche community of a few thousand people.

People like the one you’re replying to always are so sure their echo chamber is right when reality is like complete opposite. Most people on reddit are lurkers and not terminally online people. They just want to scroll and fucking waste time. Community, subs and their mods or rules be damned.

They don’t care if the cat videos are on a banana sub. they’ll happily upvote and scroll away while the terminally online will start complaining why the post is not fit, a repost, or against the rules for 100s of time. And as always, once they leave, they think it is dead.

Everyone who doesn’t think music isn’t getting worse should post examples of recent good music they like. As a lot of people who claim this often like generic shitty music.

When most of the source of innovation in your country is brain-drain from other countries, but then those countries start fostering their own economy, so smart people want to stay.

USApes: shockedpikachuface.jpg

Downvoting it isn’t going to make it go away.

Why do you think they picked the guy as the CEO?

You have no idea how much information and tech-of-the-times were stolen from the rest of the world by the west to make you feel it’s unique to China. But oh so propaganda made you believe, west made all the progress on its own.

Go read some history books or whatever. You do you.

It’s downloading an app off of an app store and turning it on. Stop trying to force your narrow perspective onto everyone else.

People who are subject to censorship, in time find a workaround. Downloading a VPN app with a big green button to turn it on is not rocket science.

There are probably lots of VPN companies targetting “tiktok” as a keyword to advertise and increase their user base. So they come up first on appstores and search results.

Now, go ahead and call people searching google is not average tiktok user.

But where that data goes after you turn the VPN on, is a different topic on its own. Maybe China itself is running a whole lot of VPN networks from shell companies.

China’s use of opensource isn’t exactly in the spirit of open-source though, is it?

As an example, most companies in China don’t even release the linux kernel source code after they modify it, as they are required by GPL.

So they’re building mega-corps on the back of opensource, just like the western counterparts. That’s capitalism 101.

Any other source that’s not biased?

How is it missleading,when it doesnt claim they are latest gen chips? It’s still a chip no matter how you spin it.

Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers

umm, of course? Google is evil, when it comes to making money. They’re an US company after all and US is no stranger to killing innocents for profit.

The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

A missile or a shipping delivery.

Wait to find out.…

“but but but it was never the plan, we’re just going to change goal posts now to seem like a little pissed off baby. In the end we won.”

For a customer who wants the best phone for their money, the Fairphone is objectively worse

Objectivity worse in performance, sure. Some people consider more things than just being a fastest bang for the buck. Unethical mining, forced labour, e-waste, data mining, and lots of other things. If you care at all, that is.

If you want to compare that to a product made by a billion dollar company, no one is stopping anyone. There is cost associated with doing things ethically. Small companies aren’t financed to eat those costs to gain the market. It speaks more about principles than anything else.

I don’t disagree with Linus’ suggestion at the end: even the fairest phone is environmentally costlier than rescuing an old second hand phone

is it? The person who sold the phone is most definitely going to buy a new phone and if they sold the phone released last year they will most likely do so every year. The reason there’s a second hand market with a year old phones is because people obsessively buy new phones. How exactly is that environmentally friendly than starting to use a phone made by a company with higher ethics? Surely the later stacks higher in being environmentally and morally friendly?

Duchebag is spouting capitalists “trickle down” economics. Rather than fix the cause, find the flex tape to hide it. Rich people buy new phones, less rich buy phones from the rich, and so on. No one needs to look past the marketing into ethics in how they were made and companies keep profiting in billions by exploitation of the poor. So so environmentally friendly.