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DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
(dronedj.com)
banning the DJI
It's not the dow jones
why the fuck do I live here. honestly this is a stupid petty thing to consider as a tipping point but this country is heading in a very stupid direction. At least I could be like "well obviously this place sucks but China is doing cool stuff" but now they're trying to cleave the world in two and trap me on the boring fascist side of it.
Edgy 12 year olds when they learn that the Nazis aren’t a bunch of funny, misunderstood teenagers and 20-something’s on 4chan and are lined up to be executed because they watched porn once 
Idk about you but I'm stuck here. There's no real way I can get out of this fucking place. I have no education nor vast sums of cash to buy my way out. My best case scenario is finding a foreigner to marry and gtfo that way but I'm pretty sure my partner wouldn't be too happy about that
Is this just banning a particular brand of drones because they're a Chinese company?
One of these sections, H.R. 2864, or the Countering CCP Drones Act, was added to the bill and can be found under Section 1722. For those who are just hearing about this for the first time, it would remove DJI’s ability to get approval from the FCC, banning any future drones from being imported and possibly grounding current drones.
Yes.
Isn’t this another instance of “You’re not allowed to make laws specifically targeting one company” like why TikTok is probably gonna win their court case? Or are they relying on the Supreme Court deciding that’s fine with the TikTok one?
Tiktok is not going to win the court case. Laws exist to serve capital.
Yes exactly. Laws exist to serve capital, they’re not going to make an anti-business decision like that. That’s why the constitution says you can’t write a law targeting one company. Because laws exist to serve capital. I will genuinely be shocked if TikTok loses their case
The capital they're serving here is domestic tech moguls who are drooling to buy TikTok at forced-sale prices
the Countering CCP Drones Act
Damn why does the US hate me so much?
Seriously tho, wtf is that name lol.
CCCP Drones Act
I'm guessing they have some kind of provision blocking Chinese owned companies in general, but it'd be funny as fuck if they just reincorporated as a new, near identical company and kept on.
Lol I'm pretty sure the US police and military are filled with DJI drones cause it's the best consumer grade you can buy
Yeah, this is gonna impact so many industries. If I thought lawmakers were smart, i would suspect there's another drone company in the wings waiting to swoop in for the profits, but they've convinced me otherwise.
At this rate America's going to ban fucking flat screen TVs
Would be hilarious if that led to a domino effect of people becoming politically active and overthrowing capital because they no longer have access to their circuses.
It's like my CPC handler always says, "Learn to hack, learn to drone."
lol this definitely will impact the economy. in agriculture, DJI/XAG (both chinese) drones are increasingly used in spraying operations because they're cheaper and more efficient than sprayers, there are many businesses that make a living providing this drone spraying service and there is no competition to DJI/XAG, banning it will hurt these businesses and producers since they'll have to go back to less efficient sprayers. It's not huge but these add up.
Interesting, i figured the existing plane things or whatever for spraying could not be out-competed by drones. It's fascinating how far drone tech has come
Dick jerk insanity
so.. they're gonna give me my money back then right?
Yankees are just banning everything China aren't they? Can't compete, so they ban.
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