It's not just "speculation and conjecture" As the Daily Beast's companion article states (emphasis mine),

This issue was also brought up quite recently in a related discussion right here on Slashdot.

I worked breakfast time at a Hardee's while at school, and we had to suck out all the oil, run it through a filter, and scrub the inside of the fryer every morning at the end of the shift. Of course this was back in the 80s, things might have changed since then.

Shouldn't you finish cleaning the deep fryer before your manager gets back?

Perhaps, but I've other obligations on my time in addition to dispensing occasional pithy bits of wisdom to ACs on Slashdot.

"This unit is offered at a very special discount. Oh, and it will give your all bank and CC info to Gods Know Who. But it most likely won't eat your dog."

Yep, problem solved.

You watch way too much TV, and Lenovo is already screwing themselves over quite handily, no mystery competitor required.

What I'm saying (bearing in mind of course that This Is Merely My Opinion and that I Am Not A Lawyer) is:

Previous to this, Lenovo didn't promise not to sell machines with SuperFish installed on them. Now they have done so, and yet they're still shipping them with it.

Said another way:

To people who bought their machines previously, Lenovo could (and did) say, "Sorry, we screwed up, but we'll make it right," which could have had mitigating effects in the event of litigation. Now, they're out of any such excuses and thus MUCH more likely to get hammered in court.

To avoid a class-action lawsuit, maybe?

So sez you.

(Posted to remove a moderation gone wrong.)

I read the BBC story already. Just up late and bored, so I thought I'd see if I could troll some iFanboi, and l0ungeb0i eagerly took the bait.

I've heard that phones manufactured in the current decade have screen resolutions much greater than 320x240.

Perhaps it's time that you considered an upgrade?

TFTFY.

That's in no way remarkable. In fact, it's to be expected, given that

Cultures are not defined by national boundaries.

Are you high? Of course it's censorship. A textbook example of it, in fact. Whatever the rationale might be for it does not alter that fact.