These morons love to jump off the plane and try to figure out how to build a parachute on the way down. I knew Trump would be bad for the country; I never thought he would be this bad
this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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Good thing we put most of our electronic manufacturing in China. Can't wait for that one to bite us in the ass...
Sounds to me like "Chinese can't know the Zio--allies are tracking"
Wow
Good luck Americans. Maybe you all need to download collapseOS now.
What a stupid fucking move.
It’s a grift. You bribe me to get an exception. That’s how they get so rich so fast.
That is how it worked with the routers...
all this is going to do is create a greater divide between consumers and corporations.
corps will continue to do BAU and consumers will bend over and take it.
it's a grift to force consumers to comply with corporate interests because small businesses and tech savvy consumers can't compete with the corporate overlords.
for example: in two years when your HDD dies your Plex server goes down. you'll be forced to use Netflix if you want to watch any content.
it's a very rudimentary example, but now apply that to accessible services like planned parenthood. they'll need to rely on cloud based services which will willing comply with federal regulations that prohibit the sale to organizations that support "the bad stuff" (abortions in this case).
Holy shit this will increase business costs. The most anti-business president of my life.
Yeah, but a small handful of American (or non-American but willing to pay bribes) CEOs will make tons of money off of this as the economy craters.
Dude bankrupted a casino ffs
Wow I never actually thought hoarding random computer components would become anything more than an amusing hobby, but here we are
On the one hand, up here in Canada this is going to likely have annoying ripple effects. We have a separate system (the ISED) with separate but similar certification criteria, and due to the similarity items are usually certified for both simultaneously. But I bet a lot of companies won't bother doing just ISED certification on its own.
On the plus side, though; hey, international corporations, come set up shop in Canada instead. We don't cut off Chinese electronics due to the random voices in a demented toddler-king's brain.
You're vastly overestimating the American market's shrinking impact on the global economy. China (and international firms using Chinese manufacturing) have been targeting the Chinese domestic market, the growing SEA market, and working to open the EU market (because EU leaders have to realize eventually they can't possibly compete against China in electronics manufacturing eventually). This added onto the fact the American economy is at it's lowest point in history (when factoring actual CoL and median Debt-to-Income ratio) and has no signs of slowing its freefall means the FCC has as much power on the international market as Kenya does.
Markets outside the US will likely default to the EU regulatory standards which are close enough to Canadian standards they would just need to pay for the certification costs to pass in Canada.
On the plus side the Nvidia/AMD duopoly will unironically come to an end due to this. Chinese chips are only 5-10 years behind (besides AI Compute chips which are almost on par with Nvidia now) and are around 100x cheaper.
How soon before government thin clients are the only devices people can legally get?
Tomorrow's future, today!
Hey maybe computer components will cost a sane amount in the sane rest of the west
Official cutting off your nose to spite your face policy.