Yes! We need fun browser plugins with a diversity of methods. Adblock, but it accepts the cookies it can 100% identify as trackers (aka, safe for this trick), then peer-to-peer share with other participants to randomly swap the cookies between folks who agree. A plugin that alters real user input so as far as the website sees, the mouse teleports etc so real input looks like bots. Then then also add automated clicks and it's harder to tell wtf is real.

They can get enough on most to be useful, given what's being collected. For this to be in their hands, ISPs; Phone carriers; service providers *cough* Gmail/all Alphabet *cough*, Apple and especially VPN companies have to be part of the intercept. Every Ecommerce site can ID you via your payment method, then place cross site cookies - possibly at the ISP or phone carrier level (no reason for the tracking marker to reach your device, just the immediate upstream one).

But you're right, throw rocks into the vacuum. But also throw realistic fake traffic. Make the data untrustable.

"this tool can't do the evil thing" is spook speak for "We can totally do the evil thing your concerned about, and 10 you haven't thought of. We're smart enough to break up the teams working on each stage of the pipeline so if there is a leak, no single stage of the pipe can do the evil thing."

AKA If you're relieved by the 'we're just collection uncollated info' misdirection you're wearing blinders.

Yep. It's about the only place it's workable. I'm a bit concerned about reserve time (time to fly if weather at the landing airport is bad or they need to divert for any other reason). It may be that it's only approved on flights short enough they can return to the departing airport.

The CCP deliberately destroyed all the initial samples and data from surrounding medical labs, then denied access for anyone to collect new samples while censoring local virologists. While the outbreak spread into a serious epidemic, they denied any infection existed. During that time they banned domestic travel, while allowing international travel. (workers from Wuhan to Italy, for example - and look at the early death toll there) I was seeing reports from Wuhan in Nov, while 4 months later the official stance was 'no outbreak' with the credibility of Baghdad Bob.
That's a ton of effort to conceal. Explanations need to account for that, and the fact that anyone who has to work with the CCP isn't free to contradict their narrative. (The WHO was in a bind, and parroted the CCP denial of an outbreak for months after that was laughable, for example)

When official sources are clearly compromised, you've got fertile ground for BS theories. Have fun trying to pick the truth out of the (partly deliberate) mess that makes.

Calling out the most visible actor is reasonable, even if they're not the only one.
It's also reasonable to consider the larger picture when deciding what actions are reasonable or effective.

Lets add corollary labeling requirements to purchase chips from Taiwan. We need to determine the acceptable options. Products from mainland China must be labeled 'occupied China'; 'Maoist insurrectionist China' - something in that direction.
Maybe Taiwan could add a infogram about 1989 Tiananmen Square, or the Hundred Flower campaign and purge/mass murders on their labeling. You know, a little helpful history lesson for enrichment.

This is to push new car sales and devalue used cars. After 4 years, features turn off and the used car is damaged goods. Buy the new one to get everything working again, meanwhile the used cars don't compete with new ones as much.

If the sellers added 3rd party quality ram and removed firmware locks then Cisco says 'unauthorized, low-quality, or unreliable components' to imply low-quality and unreliable when there is no evidence of that. (not a fan of fraud, but not concerned if a router is sold with X/MB of ram as long as the ad says it's Micron not Cisco OEM)

That's assuming the subscription numbers are genuine paying non-promotional users. Posting positive growth just as they have negative press elsewhere is very convenient for PR. Others have been... economical with the truth when it comes to real persons who are active users behind the numbers shall we say.

Selling addictive drugs without paying off all of the right regulatory politicians is the crime. Talwin, Oxy - legal. $If$ you can think of $ome way to get them through the $FDA$ you're in the clear...

This appears to be obstruction to such a large degree you have to infer malicious intent.
Is it political, anti-competitive or both? Who is the decision maker?
Is this being done on behalf of Boeing/ULA as SpaceX is a giant threat to their Nasa contractor grift? (see SLS cost vs value)
Is this on behalf of one or more competitor in a different area? Tesla vs Detroit car companies; Starlink vs Telcos; now FB/Insta, Tictok and Alphabet may be threatened if Twitter brings back an improved Vine, actually follows it's own terms of service etc.
Is this political payback for threatening Twitter's political bias?
Harm business prospects of Texas? (Fed agency heads have a track records of harming business/states that support the 'other' party)

The one that's clear is that 'environmental review' is the excuse for some other motive.

Same here. I switched our corporate purchases away from Lenovo due to superfish. I have enough to deal with, and don't need worries about compromises delivered by the manufacturer. If you've got a Lenovo, does the next driver security update include the next superfish? How much time would verifying it doesn't take? Want to do that for every update?!? No thanks!

We got 'reasonable' speed limits passed at the state level. The big cities sued as they lost so. much. ticket. cash.

Speed enforcement is based on your local municipalities spending. The state here raised speed limits (this will shock you) to the average speed of traffic on the freeways, still below the safe design speed of the roads. Large cities lobbied & sued the state. Their city budgets were negatively impacted by the reduced ticket revenue you see...

But that was great! Now do speed limits dropping 25 mph right over a hill next to a convenient hiding place for patrol cars. How are those for safety? What about installing the reduced speed limit sign for an 'enforcement week' then removing it for six months before doing it again. (they rotate around the city with this trick here...) How is that for safety?

So with this idea a well funded propaganda (er, PR) campaign can buy bots for $3/mo for a month to have thousands of 'blue check' accounts attack a target or promote/demonize an idea. I'm sure that'd never be abused...