If I continue to try to educate you then I will only allow you to drag me down to your level and beat me with your stupidity. Enjoy being an uneducated fool.

Your analogy breaks down just a bit when you realize that the IT guys don't make less money when nobody clicks, and if management is smart they recognize that the education provided by IT is working and they get a promotion or raise. Dentists also typically don't get blamed when a patient gets cavities, but IT guys *might* be held accountable if they had an education effort and this still continued to occur. It is telling that this thread started with a guy admitting he was stupid enough to click on the link, but has hate for the IT guys exposing him rather than admitting that he is living proof that this kind of thing is necessary.

No, "emberissing" is being so uneducated that you think that it would even be possible to keep such an absurd proposed conspiracy afloat. Either you have never seen the many Black Hat presentations including the OpenAI Hugging Face incident and interviews with experts including Bruce Schneier, Max Tegmark, Roman Yampolskiy, and many, many others or you are stupid enough to be a flat earther. You double down on the "emberissment" by proudly broadcasting your ignorance and stupidity to the world.

You are literally just repeated words you have heard without understanding on a basic level why you have no idea what you are talking about. In order to make such a ridiculous statement you have to literally zero understanding of AI, the fact that it is non-deterministic, and that it doesn't execute instructions. It doesn't do exactly as it is told. You should be embarrassed to post such a ridiculous and clueless comment.

Great ... now show me where I professed to be qualified to be an editor (i.e. criticized them).

I have no idea how the fact that there are more companies in China, or that others might exist outside China makes anything moot. That is like saying putting in a filtration system to avoid a single contaminant is moot because it also filters other potential contaminants. That being said I may not have been clear. We are mostly in agreement, and I agree with you that this is really about Trump trying to pretend he is a 5D Chess Grandmaster; of course he is posturing to play to his ignorant base. I was explaining the reasoning used, not saying I believe them. I would add though, saying that factory inspections are meaningless doesn't make any sense either. If you have ever worked in manufacturing then you know that they burn/load the firmware on site. Sampling products from shelves is useful, but that doesn't mean that the additional pressure that they could be audited at any time, especially if they actually perform the audits, is of no use. To recap, we agree that this is much ado about nothing, but from a purely security conscious standpoint it *does* make sense to be able to have manufacturing in the US if only because the factories have to follow all US laws and need to comply with all lawful inspections, which can be more easily facilitated due to geographic convenience.

If you were qualified to be an editor you would know it is "would have" not "would of."

Actually his comment was perfect because you just proved his point and are clearly too dmb to figure it out.

I see a lot of comments from people here who already know exactly how well it works and why it is "yet another thing nobody asked for", etc. What is quite obviously absent is comments from anyone who felt the need to actually try it before already knowing how well it works. Welcome to Slashot circa 2026, where there are mostly "experts" commenting who don't need to even know what the questions are to already have all of the answers.

China remains the threat, not the company in which it is manufactured, because TP-Link is a Chinese company. Why moving manufacturing to the US matters is that in the US the facility is on US soil, so federal authorities can legally conduct unannounced physical audits. They can verify that the firmware being loaded onto the routers matches the exact code submitted to regulators, to make sure no backdoors were slipped in at the last second. Since you agree this isn't to create jobs, and also seem to believe that volt, flax, and salt never happened, I guess you prefer to give Trump far more credit than he deserves for his amazing "5D Chess" skills.

That would literally have nothing to do with manufacturing. I was referring to the marketing claims and wasn't being literal. For example the Trump phone website used phrases like "American-proud design," "brought to life right here in the USA," and "designed with American values in mind". Later boxes carried an "Assembled in the USA" label instead. It doesn't matter what the label literally says. Marketing sells devices, not the manufacturing department. By the way, that bluster was 100% US grown Grade A Organic, and brought to you fresh to your screen with no additional cost to the consumer.

We have that in common. America incarcerates its citizens for exercising their freedoms, and most of the citizenry has no idea they are slaves. They even regularly cheer the police state for enslaving them, and most have no idea that they have been psyop'ed.

Did antone ever tell you that you whine like a little bitch? Nevermind ... I have no doubt it happens quite regularly.

It's weird that you couldn't admit that you were wrong to say that the DOD instituted the band, but now "sit corrected" by the semantic difference while still being completely wrong about who (the FCC) instituted the ban.

I agree that I over-simplified. I was focusing on events as they unfolded in my lifetime. I am not us "up" on my history as you, but clearly civil rights and the attack on them, as well as attacks on free speech started earlier than 1970.